Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Adam Minsky is an attorney and writer focusing on student loans. The Education Department posted a long-awaited update on student ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Adam Minsky is an attorney and writer focusing on student loans. Navigating student loan forgiveness is tougher than ever for ...

Public union leaders have set their sights on the Trump administration again, and this time they're fighting for a policy they don't seem to fully understand. Randi Weingarten, head of the American ...

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.

The U.S. Department of Education plans to end a student loan debt forgiveness program used by millions of Americans. The feds said Dec. 9 that they had reached a proposed court settlement to kill the ...

The Department of Education announced a joint settlement with Missouri and other Republican-led states this week that would end a student loan forgiveness program. Former President Joe Biden launched ...

The Department of Education has agreed to a settlement to end the Biden-era SAVE student loan repayment plan. Over seven million borrowers currently on the SAVE plan will need to select a new ...

I started out this year marking how glad I was that I wouldn’t have to keep writing about student loans, with former President Joe Biden leaving office. Turns out I was wrong. This is at least the ...

Some American student loan borrowers face an important deadline if they want their loan forgiveness to be processed and avoid major financial penalties. People enrolled in the SAVE play who already ...

Workers who had been repaying their student loans via President Joe Biden’s Saving on a Valuable Education (SAVE) program are looking down the barrel of an even more difficult 2026 than expected. The ...

The Department of Education building in Washington, D.C., March 24, 2025. Editorial Fellow Millions of student loan borrowers whose monthly payments were reduced to as low as $0 under a forgiveness ...

Under the Trump administration, hundreds of thousands of student loan borrowers remain stuck in a backlog of applications for an affordable repayment plan or debt forgiveness, a new court filing shows ...