If you're totally and permanently disabled, you can qualify for student loan forgiveness. When your student loans are discharged due to disability, you may be limited in whether you can work or go to ...

The Education Department began announcing long-awaited student loan forgiveness approvals under key programs after a lengthy delay had left many in limbo.

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 ...

Key Points ・The Biden administration approved roughly $188 billion in student loan forgiveness for about 5 million borrowers, the largest total in U.S. history to date. ・Based on current trends, the ...

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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 ...

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 ...

Some borrowers could fax substantial tax bills on their forgiven student loans.

Starting this year, borrowers who get their federal student loans forgiven could face big tax bills. The new rule will apply to those in income-driven repayment plans, which limit monthly payments to ...

More than 800,000 federal student loan holders remain stuck in a backlog of applications for an affordable repayment plan or debt forgiveness, a new court filing shows. The challenges accessing income ...