While the government is clearly making progress under some programs to discharge student loans, the situation is deteriorating for others. Here's a breakdown.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The U.S. Department of Education is working with a skeleton staff during the government shutdown, but the agency does have a ...

Student loan borrowers filed a forceful response as the Education Department took steps to delay discharging student loans ...

Student-loan borrowers pursuing Public Service Loan Forgiveness are facing worse delays in paperwork processing and looming ...

Under the Trump administration, hundreds of thousands of student loan borrowers remain stuck in a backlog of applications for an affordable repayment plan or debt forgiveness, a new court filing shows ...

A court-ordered filing shows the US Department of Education speeding up income-driven repayment application decisions while halting actual forgiveness under those plans. Although over 22,000 borrowers ...

Trump officials rejected 327,955 income-driven repayment plan requests from student loan borrowers in August, according to a December court filing. Millions of student loan holders rely on IDR plans ...

The Trump administration has agreed to resume student loan forgiveness for more than 2.5 million borrowers — a move that could inject billions of dollars back into the consumer economy just as the ...

The U.S. Department of Education is working with a skeleton staff during the government shutdown, but the agency does have a contingency plan in place and most core operations will continue, officials ...