A federal court has formally suspended a legal challenge over stalled student loan forgiveness. The move could have major financial repercussions for borrowers.
During the first Trump administration, I marked my extreme distain for the whole operation by posting a regular feature on this website, Trump Terrible 10, ranking and critiquing the ten most disgraceful people in the administration that week. Consistent with my views...
Private equity billionaire Marc Rowan was revealed last week to be the driving force behind a Trump administration campaign pressuring nine major U.S. universities, including Brown, MIT, and the University of Virginia, to accept a “compact” loaded with right-wing...
Two former executives at the for-profit Los Angeles Film School have sued the school, its connected operation Full Sail University, and the schools’ main owner, Bill Heavener, alleging that the school has defrauded federal taxpayers for years via a scheme that...
The Trump administration filed papers on Thursday seeking to pause a legal challenge over allegedly blocked student loan forgiveness due to the government shutdown.
A federal district judge in Fort Worth, TX, today rejected a challenge from the for-profit cosmetology school industry to the Department of Education’s latest version of the gainful employment rule. This iteration of the rule, issued in 2023 under the Biden...
The Department of Education sent out a flurry of student loan forgiveness emails for borrowers who have reached their eligibility threshold. Here are the details.
A government shutdown could have big ramifications for student loans. Here’s who would be impacted, and who may be able to avoid disruptions.
Five broad groups of student loan borrowers could be covered by this class action lawsuit, regardless of whether they individually join or actively participate.
Millions of student loan borrowers will see sharp increases in their payments in the coming months, according to a new analysis by a borrower advocacy organization.
The Department of Education cleared the next hurdle this week in its push to implement sweeping new rules that could limit student loan forgiveness under PSLF.
The department’s delay may be preventing certain borrowers from accessing legally authorized federal student loan forgiveness.
A couple of people I know criticized me for calling the Trump administration fascist. They said I didn’t know what fascism is or that using that word is dangerous. I have looked carefully at what fascism means and whether it is appropriate to call the Trump...
An updated lawsuits asks a federal court to force the Department of Education to unblock student loan forgiveness by January. Here’s what this means for borrowers.
The latest filing reflects the department’s steady but slow progress working through hundreds of thousands of student loan forgiveness and repayment applications.
Here’s what to know about the latest legal challenge, and why it’s so important for borrowers pursuing student loan forgiveness under IDR and PSLF.
We don’t yet know who committed the vicious murder of Charlie Kirk, or what was in their mind, but Trump and MAGA already have blamed every progressive and Democrat. Meanwhile we DO know who sent the mob to the Capitol that viciously attacked police officers, and who...
A labor union filed a class action complaint this week, alleging that the Department of Education is unlawfully blocking student loan forgiveness under IDR and PSLF.
Nearly eight million federal student loan borrowers are entering their second year of paused payments. And confusion reigns over how much longer the reprieve will last.
Hundreds of thousands of employees of state and local governments could be at risk of getting cut off from student loan forgiveness under PSLF, warns one group.
A critical federal student loan discharge program has rapidly become mired in widespread administrative problems, warned a major national consumer rights group.
The proposed spending cuts could impact millions of college students as well as existing student loan borrowers pursing affordable repayment plans and loan forgiveness.
Having failed to complete deals to sell the troubled giant for-profit University of Phoenix to major state universities in Arkansas and Idaho — after people in those states got cold feet — the school’s owner, private equity behemoth Apollo Global Management, just...
An apparent surge of student loan forgiveness approval letters under PSLF is offering hope to borrowers. But significant problems and threats remain.
The Department of Education continued its suspension of student loan forgiveness under IBR this week, as Democratic lawmakers raised alarms over the implications.
The Department of Education published new guidance on key changes that are coming for student loan borrowers after passage of the “One, Big, Beautiful Bill.”
The Department of Education will begin transferring an unknown number of federal student loan accounts from MOHELA to other servicers by the end of the year.
A major backlog of applications for a popular federal student loan forgiveness program shows no signs of improving.
As we predicted last month, the Federal Trade Commission today announced it had dropped the case it had been pursuing against for-profit college operation Grand Canyon Education. Obviously proud of their action, the three Republican appointees — masquerading as the...
The Trump administration released for public inspection new regulations designed to limit student loan forgiveness under the PSLF program.
Student loan borrowers are struggling as the system remains mired in turmoil. Here are the latest updates for those struggling with repayment and loan forgiveness.
One borrower advocacy organization is warning that Trump’s new student loan repayment plan is akin to a debt trap.
Photo: Molly Riley, The White House Here are comments I made today at a Department of Education hearing seeking comments from the public on a new rule-making process announced by the Department. The Trump administration has pursued a well-publicized effort it says is...
Many student loan borrowers will likely need to consider switching plans or otherwise modifying their repayment approach in the coming months.
A new repayment plan will be launched soon that may allow some student loan borrowers to effectively halt excess interest accrual. But there may be a price.
Millions of borrowers will soon lose access to critical federal student loan forgiveness programs under the “Big, Beautiful Bill” unless they take certain steps.
