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If colleges want taxpayer money, they need to be good stewards of it.

Mortgage rates are the interest you pay to borrow money for *** home. Higher rates mean higher monthly payments because of ...

If you’ve been on the SAVE plan, you’ll soon have to pick a new repayment option or eventually have an option chosen for you.

The Department of Education has scaled back its oversight of student loan servicers, a new report from the nonpartisan Government Accountability Office finds.

The end of SAVE represents one of the most significant student loan payment changes since repayments resumed after the pandemic pause. For many borrowers, a sudden increase of several hundred dollars ...

OPENING a letter from the Student Loans Company in her Hong Kong apartment, Amy Poulton did a double take. She was shocked to discover that because she had moved abroad after her studies, she had ...

A new GAO report found that Trump's slashing of staff at the Education Department has led to significant gaps in oversight of student-loan servicers.

Without this Education Department oversight, borrowers could "be placed in the wrong loan repayment status, billed for incorrect amounts" and more, the U.S. Government Accountability Office says.

New data maps the average student loan balance per borrower in every U.S. state, from $31,800 in the lowest state to $126,500 ...

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The U.S. Department of Education is weighing public feedback on a narrowed definition of who is considered a "professional" student.