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After a five-year pandemic-related payment freeze, the Education Department announced it will resume collections of its defaulted federal student-loan portfolio in May.
The federal funding freeze does not apply to student loans and Pell grants, according to the Department of Education. The funding pause "only applies to discretionary grants at the Department of ...
Student loan borrowers won't have to make payments until the end of January, the U.S. Education Department said Friday, extending a pandemic-era reprieve through the first days of the Joe Biden ...
The Trump administration’s freeze on federal spending will not affect some of the biggest education-related spending, including student loans, Pell grants and a huge program for high-poverty ...
Department officials said Friday they would freeze the student loans of borrowers who are enrolled in the program — known as the SAVE plan — and required to make payments in July. Many of ...
Critics of the administration’s latest student loan gambit, including congressional ... free general forbearance as part of the payment freeze extension. SAVE plan borrowers initially had ...
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Republican lawmakers are proposing major changes to federal student loan repayment plans, sparking sharp debate among ...