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Arising from the ashes of the 2007–2009 financial crisis, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) was designed to ...
The Department of Education told BI that it hopes to clear the backlog of income-driven repayment applications "over the next ...
Trump is restarting collections on defaulted student-loan balances in two weeks. It could impact ... borrowers was "erroneous." Politics 2025-04-17T03:02:08Z A new internal memo from the CFPB ...
Millions of borrowers who are late on their student loan payments are at risk of falling behind on other debts, the New York ...
A new national survey reveals that public-sector employees are significantly more likely to hold student loan debt than their private-sector counterparts. However, they often face fewer long-term ...
Serious delinquencies on student loans jumped tenfold at the start of 2025, shortly after lenient pandemic-era policies came ...
The average total undergraduate student loan debt ranges from $32,000 for public universities to $47,000 for private, for-profit colleges. This burden makes a significant impact on monthly ...
WASHINGTON — A federal judge has ordered a now-defunct debt relief provider to pay roughly $43 million in restitution over a case brought by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, alleging that the ...
The Trump administration has dismissed the federal government's lawsuit against National Collegiate Student Loan Trusts, abandoning a $2.25 million proposed settlement that could have gone to ...
Another credit agency is ringing the alarm bell on student loan ... of super prime borrowers were seriously delinquent, those who did ultimately default saw the impact to their credit scores ...
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) is taking a red pen to its own playbook.  In a sweeping move that signals a recalibration of ...