Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Adam Minsky is an attorney and writer focusing on student loans. Borrowers are contending with an ever-changing landscape of ...

The Department of Education paused involuntary collection giving struggling borrowers a critical window to find a repayment ...

A major new court ruling paves the way for the Education Department to automatically discharge the student loans of roughly ...

If you collect Social Security and you are behind on a federal student loan, the past year has been a slow-motion policy ...

The Trump administration announced a three-phase transition that will eventually include management of most federal student ...

KEY TAKEAWAYS The Department of Education is beginning the process of moving the trillion-dollar federal student loan ...

The Trump administration and Congress are in the process of overhauling everything from how much Americans can borrow to how quickly they have to pay it back. The U.S. Department of Education ...

The Trump administration is expected to send the nearly $1.7 trillion student loan portfolio to the Treasury Department, the ...

Borrowers who recently became eligible for student loan forgiveness will not have to pay taxes on discharged loans, the Trump administration has confirmed. The Department of Education said last week ...

The Trump administration is trimming the number of federal student loan repayment options available to borrowers. A handful of repayment plans will ultimately be replaced with two choices for student ...

More than a million college students are turned down for federal loans annually, usually because their schools don't meet standards set by the U.S. Department of Education, according to the Institute ...

Borrowers have spent much of 2025 trying to keep up with dizzying changes to the federal student loan system. The Trump administration and Congress are in the process of overhauling everything from ...