If a new bill passes Congress, it will adjust interest rates on existing federal student loans down to 2 percent.

Three lawmakers recently proposed slashing student loan interest to 2%. Could this game-changing bill save you thousands?

"We are concerned that there is not a serious, detailed thoughtful plan for reform around what to do with the student loan portfolio." Granville concurred with that assessment. Gutting the ...

Since its establishment in 1979, the U.S. Department of Education (DOE) has shaped federal student loan policies, which have, in turn, influenced the rising cost of an education and the loans to ...

The SAVE plan's student debt forgiveness, a hallmark of the Biden administration's student loan reform efforts, was blocked by a February 2025 decision from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the ...

President Donald Trump signed an executive order calling on the Secretary of Education to dismantle the Department of Education. Screengrab from White House video Update: Applications for income ...

Federal student loan borrowers should start repaying their loans so as not to affect their credit scores. A pause on credit ...

Others’ loans, however, were stuck in limbo and became a political football as the Biden administration’s plans for student loan forgiveness hit a wall of legal challenges. The 3.5-year ...

Last year, the federal student loan interest rates for undergraduate borrowers hit a decade-high average of 6.53%, and graduate student loan rates climbed to over 8%. Some of you are paying less ...