Here’s what student loan borrowers should know about the July 1, 2026 cutoff, and what you should do to avoid restricting ...

Sweeping student loan forgiveness changes for federal student loans are going into effect this year, and millions of borrower ...

While many types of student loan forgiveness are tax-free federally, several states may levy taxes on student loan ...

The U.S. Department of Education plans to end a student loan debt forgiveness program used by millions of Americans. The feds said Dec. 9 that they had reached a proposed court settlement to kill the ...

President Trump generally does not support student loan forgiveness and would likely seek an end to some student loan ...

The Department of Education building in Washington, D.C., March 24, 2025. Editorial Fellow Millions of student loan borrowers whose monthly payments were reduced to as low as $0 under a forgiveness ...

The federal Repayment Assistance Plan, or RAP, will be the newest student loan repayment plan. President Donald Trump’s “big, beautiful bill,” passed in 2025, made many changes to federal student loan ...

Under the Trump administration, hundreds of thousands of student loan borrowers remain stuck in a backlog of applications for an affordable repayment plan or debt forgiveness, a new court filing shows ...

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Federal tax bills on most student loan forgiveness will return in 2026, ending a five-year window of tax-free relief and raising the risk of a student loan tax bomb for borrowers whose balances are ...

The fate of several student loan forgiveness programs has become uncertain under the Trump administration. But borrowers continue to get the relief. One man, Daniel Gray, received an email in October ...