Educational News

The Department of Education on Thursday finalized the student loan overhaul introduced in President Donald Trump’s “big beautiful bill,” also known as the Working Families Tax Cuts Act, which was signed into law in July. The final regulations include new borrowing limits on federal student…

Student loan borrowers will soon be removed from the Saving on a Valuable Education, or SAVE, plan, the Trump administration announced on Friday. The Education Department said it would send guidance to the 7.5 million people who signed up for the now-defunct repayment plan.…

A federal appeals court in the US has ordered the end of the Saving on a Valuable Education (SAVE) plan, a repayment programme introduced during the Biden administration that was used by millions of student loan borrowers. The ruling comes…

The US Education Department is handing off a portion of its student loan portfolio to the Treasury Department, a first step toward shedding management of all student loans as Trump administration officials dismantle the federal education agency. Under an agreement…

The U.S. Department of Education (the Department) today issued a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) aimed at reducing the cost of higher education and simplifying federal student loan repayment, as outlined in President Trump’s historic Working Families Tax Cuts Act (the Act). …

Some student loan borrowers can soon expect a check in the mail, more than a year after the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau reached a $120 million settlement with former federal servicer Navient. The CFPB said Navient steered student loan borrowers away from affordable repayment plans…

The student loan delinquency rate is surging, new research finds. Nearly 25% of student loan borrowers with a payment due are now behind, compared with around 9% in 2019, during President Donald Trump’s first term, according to a report published Friday by The Century Foundation,…

Federal student loan borrowers submitted a record number of complaints to the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau from mid-2024 to mid-2025, a recent report from the bureau shows. But the government’s 21-page report, published in early January, omits details on the nature of borrowers’ complaints —…

Student debt can make it more challenging to prepare for retirement — and that is reflected in the retirement balances of older borrowers, Fidelity data shows. Retirement balances are roughly 30% lower among employees over age 50 who currently have student debt, at…

More than 800,000 federal student loan holders remain stuck in a backlog of applications for an affordable repayment plan or debt forgiveness, a new court filing shows. As of the end of December, 734,221 borrower requests to transfer into an income-driven repayment…