The impacts of these recent events could touch every aspect of student debt from disbursement to loan repayment and student loan forgiveness.
Donald Trump’s Secretary of Education, billionaire Linda McMahon, has now echoed Trump’s last education secretary, billionaire Betsy DeVos, by claiming that fighting fraud in higher education means going after students, rather than holding accountable the predatory...
A federal court issued a major order blocking President Trump from dismantling the Department of Education and transferring the federal student loan portfolio.
House GOP lawmakers passed sweeping legislation on Thursday that would repeal several key federal student loan forgiveness and repayment programs.
Senator Bill Cassidy (R-LA), chair of the Senate Health Education Labor & Pensions (HELP) Committee, has declined to schedule a hearing prior to a committee vote, scheduled for Thursday, on President Trump’s nominee to be Under Secretary of Education, Nicholas...
The Trump administration revealed that nearly 50,000 applications for a student loan forgiveness “buyback” program remain stuck in limbo, with no resolution in sight.
Student loan borrowers are facing an unprecedented credit damage crisis as the federal student loan repayment system remains mired in turmoil and delinquencies surge.
The Donald J. Trump administration, which claims its DOGE-driven reshaping of the federal government is aimed at cutting waste, fraud, and abuse, quietly cancelled a $37 million fine that the Department of Education, under the Biden administration, imposed in 2023 on...
The Department of Education revealed that 96% of IDR requests for more than two million student loan borrowers remain unprocessed. And things may soon get worse.
The Trump administration released its first official update on student loan IDR and PSLF Buyback application processing this week. Here are the key details.
Dire emails flooded the inboxes of millions of defaulted federal student loan borrowers this week, warning that the government will seize a portion of their earnings.
Republican House lawmakers unveiled legislation that would narrowly extend student loan forgiveness tax relief for certain borrowers, but not others.
As of Saturday, the student loan IDR application system should be fully back up and running, according to administration officials. Here’s what borrowers should know.
Republicans in Congress, at the Department of Education, and in the White House are advancing an array of proposals that threaten to undermine or eliminate multiple fe…
Nearly 200,000 federal student loan borrowers were notified this week that their wages and benefits are about to be seized by the government.
The Trump Department of Education announced two weeks ago that it planned to go hard at student loan borrowers who have not been repaying, declaring that on May 5 it would resume collections of defaulted loans. It was the previous Trump administration that halted...
A new program that offers borrowers an opportunity to “buy back” student loan forgiveness has been largely stalled for months. But big updates may be coming.
The Department of Education is set to resume collections activities against defaulted federal student loan borrowers on Monday. Here’s how to protect yourself.
If the bill is enacted, the reforms could dramatically raise costs for working families who carry student loan debt, warned a borrower advocacy organization.
Buried deep in a new bill is a major change that would cut off a popular federal student loan forgiveness program for medical and dental residents.
If the bill is ultimately enacted, it would cut off or push out loan forgiveness and force millions of borrowers into more expensive repayment plans.
Former for-profit college owner Carl Barney donated more than a million dollars to political committees working to elect Donald Trump in 2024. Yet while the transactional Trump has spent much of his first 100 days taking actions, including through the justice system,...
If enacted, the bill would make profound changes to federal aid and repayment plans, and would cut off or push out student loan forgiveness for millions of borrowers.
“College Graduation” by Liz Sauerbrunn is licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 2.0. About a decade ago, two notorious for-profit college chains—ITT Technical Institute and Corinthian Colleges—collapsed after state and federal investigations revealed they had defrauded their...
Last week, Washington governor Bob Ferguson signed legislation that will require online, out-of-state colleges that enroll Washington residents to obey the state’s consumer protection laws. State Representative Gerry Pollet, (D-Seattle), sponsor of the legislation,...
The Department of Education appears to have removed a new feature that has allowed borrowers to track their student loan forgiveness progress.
The group urged borrowers to immediately save or screenshot critical records that provide details on their payment history and student loan forgiveness progress.
St. Andrews University, a small liberal arts college in Laurinburg, North Carolina, announced today that it will close in ten days, on May 5. In a statement on the school’s website, the president, Tarun Malik, said, “we have reached a point where financial...
Nearly two million federal student loan borrowers pursuing lower payments and loan forgiveness have been stuck in limbo. Now, we have some updates.
Here’s what student loan borrowers need to know about the Department of Education’s crackdown on defaulted federal student loan borrowers.
A new report filed with the Federal Election Commission shows that the troubled for-profit college operation Perdoceo Education Corp. donated $50,000 to the 2025 Trump-Vance Inaugural Committee. Almost all of Perdoceo’s revenue comes from U.S. taxpayers. The report...
The Department of Education announced that major collections efforts against 6.8 million federal student loan borrowers will be resuming in a matter of weeks.
Fight movies are an enduring cinematic subgenre. Requiem for a Heavyweight (Anthony Quinn), Raging Bull (Robert De Niro), the Rocky series (Sylvester Stallone), Cinderella Man (Russell Crowe), and Fight Club (Edward Norton and Brad Pitt) are the standouts. But...
The Trump administration took new steps this week that could jeopardize student loan forgiveness for Americans based on their public service careers.
Mississippi has been the whipping boy of the liberal media for decades. When the states are ranked in terms of education, healthcare, or quality of life, Mississippi is often ranked near the bottom. Moreover, white Mississipians are often caricatured as narrow-minded,...
In a radio interview posted today, University of Idaho president C. Scott Green appeared to indicate that the proposed deal for his school to acquire the for-profit giant University of Phoenix is not going to happen. While Green said the action “is still in Phoenix’s...
