After a court declined to approve Trump's settlement to eliminate the SAVE student-loan repayment plan, borrowers filed a ...

Key Takeaways Americans owe $1.66 trillion in student loan debt, but the average per-borrower balance varies dramatically by state.Even as total student debt has climbed, the average balance per ...

Eventually, the changes will streamline the system and reduce the number of repayment options, but right now, trying to ...

KEY TAKEAWAYS For many borrowers, student loan debt makes it harder to reach major milestones, such as buying a home, retiring or starting a family.Income-driven repayment plans can lower monthly ...

Current outstanding student loan debt in the United States is now over $1.7 trillion. An estimated 43 million American adults have student loan debt. To put these numbers in context, the estimated ...

Approximately 1 million borrowers’ loans went into default at the end of 2025, according to the latest Household Debt and Credit Report from the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. In the fourth quarter ...

Squeezed by competing financial demands, the average student loan borrower aged 50 to 61 holds the highest loan balance of any other age group.

Student loan forgiveness was about to peter out. But a brand new legal development could lead to the opposite outcome – an acceleration in discharges for student loans.

Millions of student loan borrowers are contending with seemingly constant changes to repayment and loan forgiveness programs. But even more major disruptions to student loans are on the horizon. And ...

Payment shock from the end of pandemic loan protections, plan adjustments and higher living costs could push millions of federal student loan borrowers into default. Federal student loan default, ...