If a balance is present, call the servicer and ask for forbearance — a stay in making payments typically due to hardship — “right now," said Betsy Mayotte, president of The Institute of Student Loan ...

The Education Department has suspended certain collections efforts for student loans, giving borrowers some breathing room.

On January 5,  the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Florida denied a motion for judgment on the pleadings filed by a ...

The Trump administration is delaying its plans to withhold pay from student loan borrowers who default on their payments, ...

The Education Department has temporarily paused a plan to seize tax refunds and begin garnishing the wages of borrowers who ...

Federal student loan borrowers can have their wages garnished and their federal tax refunds withheld if they default on their ...

The U.S. Department of Education has extended the pandemic-era pause on collection efforts of defaulted student loan borrowers once more.

Student loan borrowers in default will have additional time to bring their accounts current before involuntary collections on ...

"I've talked to folks who literally don't know if their loan is in default or not," said one national advocate.

A major student loan servicer is facing accusations of widespread misconduct in a new amended complained filed in federal ...

The Department of Education said involuntary collections on federal student loans will stay on hold while they work to figure ...

The federal government will send roughly 1,000 notices to borrowers who are considered in default after missing student loan payments for at least 270 days.