The plan comes amid escalating concerns about loan defaults, with more than 9 million Americans behind on their payments ...

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, or CFPB, is a federal agency that helps protect consumers from financial harm. For ...

Federal student loan borrowers should start repaying their loans so as not to affect their credit scores. A pause on credit ...

It's a challenging time for many federal student loan borrowers just trying to find ways to pay off their debt. Millions of borrowers who enrolled in the Biden administration-era Saving on a ...

The Education Department reopened the application for all income-driven repayment (IDR) plans on Mar. 26, after a month-long suspension that blocked federal student loan borrowers from enrolling in an ...

They're talking about the fact that 8 million federal student loan borrowers are waiting for the courts to decide if their repayment plan is legal at the same time another 9 million are late on their ...

The expansion of the DOE since 1979 has led to ballooning student-loan costs, while a private-lender system could bring those ...

For many student loan borrowers, income-driven repayment (IDR) plans can make monthly payments much more manageable. Rather than simply divvying up the total owed across the loan term, IDR plans ...

Angelica Leicht is the senior editor for the Managing Your Money section for CBSNews.com, where she writes and edits articles on a range of personal finance topics. Angelica previously held ...