Student loan borrowers won't have to make payments until the end of January, the U.S. Education Department said Friday, extending a pandemic-era reprieve through the first days of the Joe Biden ...

The Trump administration’s freeze on federal spending will not affect some of the biggest education-related spending, ...

The federal funding freeze does not apply to student loans and Pell grants, according to the Department of Education. The funding pause "only applies to discretionary grants at the Department of ...

For loans disbursed between July 1, 2025, and June 30, 2026, undergraduate rates will be set at 6.39 percent, a decline from ...

Department officials said Friday they would freeze the student loans of borrowers who are enrolled in the program — known as the SAVE plan — and required to make payments in July. Many of ...

Borrowers who have defaulted on their federal student loans will no longer be at risk of having their Social Security ...

Take one of the major policies passed under the Trump administration in March 2020, the student-loan-payment freeze. This was passed to aid those with student loans negatively affected by the ...

Critics of the administration’s latest student loan gambit, including congressional ... free general forbearance as part of the payment freeze extension. SAVE plan borrowers initially had ...

that student financial aid administrators are "still sorting through" whether the freeze would impact federal grants and loans for financial aid. The White House insists this is not a blanket ...

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