The Repayment Assistance Plan will replace existing income-driven repayment plans starting in 2026. Many, or all, of the products featured on this page are from our advertising partners who compensate ...

Sweeping student loan forgiveness changes for federal student loans are going into effect this year, and millions of borrower ...

Nearly a third of workers say they're distracted on the job by financial headaches and, for 44 million Americans, one burden is near the top of the debt heap. Consumers are facing over 1.5 trillion ...

Parents who take out a PLUS loan to help their child finance their education after July 1, 2026, will not qualify for the new Repayment Assistance Plan. Under current law, borrowers who consolidate ...

Federal student loan repayment rules change in 2026, affecting new borrowers; experts urge borrowers to review loans and ...

・Department of Education is increasing its direct monitoring of student loan servicers ・More accountability on companies via withholding of payments ・Student loan borrowers to be made whole when ...

The Department of Education concluded its negotiations on Trump's student-loan repayment overhaul. The rule condenses existing income-driven repayment plans and institutes new caps on graduate and ...

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The federal Repayment Assistance Plan, or RAP, will be the newest student loan repayment plan. President Donald Trump’s “big, beautiful bill,” passed in 2025, made many changes to federal student loan ...

Because of the media’s justifiable focus on the Medicaid cuts, tax cut extensions for the rich and major increases to the deficit included in President Donald Trump and the Republican’s One Big ...

Federal data that tracks location and age of borrowers shows that in Texas, the student loan debt burden among borrowers ages ...