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

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 ...

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.

In short, after a three-year freeze on collections due to pandemic relief measures, wage garnishment is back for student loan borrowers in default, and those who don’t take action could see it ...

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, 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 ...

Student loan and health insurance payments are still ... an “across the board” pause on federal assistance and that the freeze would be “expressly limited to programs, projects, and ...