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This court ruling could have big implications for public-service loan forgiveness
A federal judge chastised the U.S. Education Department's handling of the loan forgiveness program, in a ruling that could help applicants who've been denied.
Updated: 02/25/2019 07:17P
SoFi Resolves Allegations of Deceptive Student Loan Advertising
The FTC and SoFi resolved a government complaint, issued in October, around the firm's student loan advertising.
Updated: 02/25/2019 05:04P
The Dept. Of Education's Loan Default Unit Is In Disarray
The U.S. Department of Education's internal unit that handles defaulted federal student loans is in complete disarray. A chronic staffing shortage is causing ...
Updated: 02/25/2019 12:16P
Student Loans: Some Employers Help Workers Pay Them Down
Some employers are offering benefits that pay down student loans. They say it's a popular way to recruit younger workers who are struggling with college debt.
Updated: 02/25/2019 07:22A
Federal program offers student loan repayment for health care workers who help with opioid crisis
As opioid addiction continues to hit epidemic proportions throughout Utah and the United States, a federal government student loan repayment program aims to ...
Updated: 02/24/2019 06:20P
Is FedLoan, America’s giant student loan servicer, running out of money?
The new CEO of PHEAA, Pennsylvania's student loan servicer, wants to start lending directly for college again, and can borrow $50 million in municipal bonds to ...
Updated: 02/24/2019 05:11A
Is FedLoan, America’s giant student loan servicer, running out of money?
The new CEO of PHEAA, Pennsylvania's student loan servicer, wants to start lending directly for college again, and can borrow $50 million in municipal bonds to ...
Updated: 02/24/2019 04:00A
A Teacher’s Student Loans Were Forgiven. Then FedLoan Wrecked His Credit.
Jed Shafer thought his work navigating the troubled public *service* loan forgiveness program was finished. He found out he was wrong when Lowe's turned him ...
Updated: 02/22/2019 11:28A
The Government's Trillion-Dollar Student Loan Office Is a Train Wreck
WASHINGTON — The raw numbers are staggering: 45 million Americans owe $1.56 trillion in student loan debt, more than all of the credit card or auto-loan ...
Updated: 02/22/2019 11:00A
California home loan program abused by contractors
As stories piled up of homeowners being smooth-talked into taking home improvement loans they couldn't afford, defenders of the PACE program cited its safety ...
Updated: 02/22/2019 10:41A