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

The Trump administration has paused its plan to garnish Social Security benefits for those who’ve defaulted on their student ...

The legal challenges to the Saving for a Valuable Education (SAVE) plan have put millions of federal student loan borrowers ...

Hits to millions of Americans’ credit scores comes after the Department of Education announced last month it would send ...

The federal government could soon garnish wages or seize tax refunds of delinquent student loan borrowers. At the same time, ...

Student loans, including Pell grants ... you will not be impacted by this freeze.” But with Medicaid, things have been a little more murky. Tuesday’s OMB memo said Medicaid would continue ...

(Photo by Win McNamee/Getty Images) After a five-year hiatus, the federal government has officially restarted student loan debt collection and other collection tactics for defaulted federal loans ...

After a five-year pandemic-related payment freeze, the Education Department announced it will resume collections of its defaulted federal student-loan portfolio in May.

The Trump administration’s freeze on federal spending will not affect some of the biggest education-related spending, including student loans, Pell grants and a huge program for high-poverty ...

Dashia is the consumer insights editor for CNET. She specializes in data-driven analysis and news at the intersection of tech, personal finance and consumer sentiment. Dashia investigates economic ...

A statement Tuesday from Federal Student Aid clarified that this order did not apply to federal student loans or Pell Grants. It also doesn’t apply to federal work-study programs. The extent of the ...

If you depend on federal student loans, Pell grants or another type of federal financial aid to pay for your tuition, you might be worried about the federal funding freeze that was announced and ...