In late April 2025, the House Education and Workforce Committee, led by Republican lawmakers, unveiled a comprehensive student loan reform proposal with a significant new income-driven repayment ...

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, ...

Republicans on the House education committee publicly unveiled their plan Tuesday to remake the federal student loan system while also cutting more than $330 billion in federal spending to help offset ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Adam Minsky is an attorney and writer focusing on student loans. Senate Republicans on Tuesday passed landmark legislation that ...

A settlement reached between the Trump administration and Republican-led states will bring to an end a Biden-era student loan repayment program and force more than 7 million people to resume payments ...

It will kick back in on Aug. 1 for people in the SAVE repayment program, whose payments have been on hold since last summer. By Tara Siegel Bernard The U.S. Education Department said on Wednesday that ...

Congress passed the One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBB), which makes numerous changes to the federal student loan program, saving $307 billion. Graduate students and parents of undergraduates will be ...