The Department of Education will delay garnishing wages and intercepting federal income tax refunds.

Today, the White House announced an indefinite pause of the collection of defaulted federal student loan debt, including through the Treasury Offset Program, which applies any tax refunds towar ...

Student-debt collections are being halted again, as they have for over half a decade now.

In early 2026, millions of Americans with defaulted student loans received unexpected relief as the Trump administration ...

Officials say they are making changes to the "broken" student loan system.

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau said the initial report was not in the scope of what is required by federal law and called the author “disgruntled” and “incompetent.” ...

The announcement comes a little more than a week after the agency had planned to start warning defaulted borrowers their ...

Student debt has transformed prenuptial (prenup) agreements from wealth preservation tools into debt shields. Seventy-seven percent of Americans with student loans would consider a prenup, according ...

'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 ...

With Americans reeling from high consumer prices, the federal government will suspend tax refund seizures and wage ...