The federal $750 rule ensures Social Security recipients keep a minimum portion of their benefits even in default, offering a ...

Last year’s enactment of the “One Big Beautiful Bill Act” (OBBBA) included significant changes to the federal student loan system. New borrowers will be ...

'I just keep hoping that it will just magically go away or I'll just die': A growing feature of the nation's $1.7 trillion student-debt crisis is Americans living with student loans for their entire ...

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The proposal is among 10 bills by House Republicans aimed at what they describe as "right-sizing" the Department of Education ...

The private student loan market figures to benefit from Republican-led changes to the much larger federal program. But other ...