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Failing to pay student loan debt has serious consequences. Your tax return refunds can be intercepted, massive collection fees of up to 20 percent of your balance can be added, it will hurt your credit score, and your wages can be garnished without going to court.
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau announced Thursday that it is taking another dive into the student debt crisis. The agency will focus on refi...
Three U.S. Senators unveiled legislation Wednesday to reverse a 2005 change in bankruptcy laws that makes it nearly impossible to have private student...
As college debt soars over $1 trillion in the U.S., students across the nation are struggling to pay for their degrees. Rising college tuitions, a...
-- A new version of the income-based federal student loan repayment program that's more favorable to many borrowers will go into effect starting Dec....
At more than $1 trillion, there's more student loan debt than any other type of consumer debt in the United States. But because of a 2005 law usher...
After a sharp jump during the worst of the recession, new figures show the number of students defaulting on federal loans seems to be stabilizing. Stu...
A majority of college students who took out private loans to attend school didn't use the low-cost federal aid options that were available to them. ...
Feeling trapped under a mountain of student loan debt? Joe Mihalic did. So a year ago, the 29-year old Harvard Business School graduate aimed to wipe...
The Republican Party Platform approved this week in Tampa calls for an end to the federal direct student loan program and would instead give governmen...
NEW YORK -- Edith Oquendo wishes she could file for bankruptcy. When Oquendo, a resident of Kissimmee, Fla., left her job as a photographer at Walt...
Graduating college is an exciting experience. It's the start of the rest of your life. You get to walk away from classrooms and exams and finally han...
It describes how PSL growth exploded during the run-up to the 2008 collapse because of the same credit underwriting, regulatory oversight and consumer disclosure deficiencies we've seen with other types of lending.
WASHINGTON — Risky lending caused private student loan debt to balloon in the past decade, leaving many Americans struggling to pay off loans th...
NEW YORK -- Students took on more student-loan debt than they needed or could handle, during a borrowing boom from 2004 to 2008, largely due to relaxe...
SmartMoney: Congress may be close to reaching a last-minute deal to stop interest rates on popular federal student loans from doubling – but expe...
NEW YORK — For college-bound students, the easy money seems to be everywhere. The website for Discover's student loans says it can help: "Cover...
The graduates have spoken. Student loan debt is weighing down a generation. This week, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau published almost 2,...
Can former students help solve the student loan crisis? That's the reasoning behind a new loan initiative launched last year at Stanford University, o...
Total student loan debt in the U.S. has now topped credit card debt, expected to reach $1 trillion this year. Hurrah! A mountain of debt is now the new American Dream.
Do you know what a trillion dollars looks like? That's the amount of debt student loans are expected to top this year. A trillion -- flipping -- dollars.
NEW YORK — Student lender Sallie Mae spent $1.86 million to lobby the U.S. government in the first quarter, as lawmakers debated the passage of ...
WASHINGTON — The House voted Thursday in favor of the biggest overhaul of college aid programs since their creation in the 1960s – a bill ...
