Student loan borrowers who have spent years planning around tax-free forgiveness are waking up to a very different reality.

Taxes on student loan forgiveness are returning, forcing millions of borrowers to rethink long-term plans as canceled debt ...

It’s a new year for student loans, and big changes are happening that will impact millions of borrowers across the country.

The Education Department announced a long-delayed expansion of a key repayment plan for student loans this week, paving the ...

The "One Big, Beautiful Bill" created a new repayment plan starting in 2026 that will reduce the amount of loans some borrowers can have. Loan forgiveness will once again be taxable, and some ...

From 2026, cancelled student loans under income-driven repayment plans will once again be treated as taxable income in the US ...

Student loan borrowers have spent much of 2025 trying to keep up with massive changes to the federal student loan system. That includes changes to repayment plans and borrowing limits. NPR's Cory ...

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Preston Cooper at AEI recently published an analysis of the latest federal student loan data, and the results were sobering: 5.5 million borrowers in default, another 3.7 million more than 270 days ...

The Department of Education is reopening three revised income-driven student loan repayment plans just weeks after the agency suspended the programs, the agency announced Wednesday. IDR loan repayment ...

A major overhaul of the federal student loan repayment system is coming in 2026. The changes stem from President Donald Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA), which was signed into law in July.