The Education Department quietly confirmed last week that student loan forgiveness for certain borrowers under several income ...

Sweeping student loan forgiveness changes for federal student loans are going into effect this year, and millions of borrower ...

While many types of student loan forgiveness are tax-free federally, several states may levy taxes on student loan ...

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 ...

As of 2026, some loan borrowers may face a sizable tax bill ...

Student loan borrowers are about to see some of the practical changes the Trump administration is making to the system that ...

Those affected by the change "are obviously, and rightfully so, really worried about this," one advocate said.

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 ...

The landscape of student loan forgiveness is undergoing a dramatic transformation as the Trump administration finalizes sweeping changes to a program that has helped more than 1 million Americans ...

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Federal tax bills on most student loan forgiveness will return in 2026, ending a five-year window of tax-free relief and raising the risk of a student loan tax bomb for borrowers whose balances are ...