Student loan forbearance temporarily stops or lowers student loan payments. Because of its costs, only use forbearance if you have short-term issues and no other choice.

On May 30, the Education Department’s Federal Student Aid office announced the new federal student loan interest rates for the 2025-2026 school year. The following rates apply to all loans ...

Fixed-rate loans offer predictability—monthly EMIs remain unchanged over the loan’s tenure. Floating-rate loans, however, shift with changes in external benchmarks like the RBI’s repo rate or the U.S.

A new analysis reveals a record number of student loan borrowers have payments 90 days or more past due, and many could be weeks away from defaulting.

Currently, there is no limit, and parents can borrow up to the full cost of attendance. Parent PLUS loans let families help pay for their children’s education without saddling the student with ...

Congress is still hashing out the details of President Trump's "big, beautiful" budget bill, but one thing seems clear: Whatever passes will have major implications for student loans.

A new report shows nearly one in three student loan borrowers are months behind on payments, with delinquencies hitting a record high. As the government resumes collections after a five-year pause ...

The share of federal student loan borrowers 90 days or more past due has climbed sharply from around 20% in February to 31% in April, the highest rate ever recorded, TransUnion said. To put that in ...

The share of federal student loan borrowers 90 days or more past due has climbed sharply from around 20% in February to 31% in April, the highest rate ever recorded, TransUnion said. To put that ...

The average rate on a 30-year fixed-rate mortgage fell one basis point to 6.84% the week ending June 26, according to rates provided to NerdWallet by Zillow. A basis point is one one-hundredth of ...

TransUnion estimates around 1.8 million borrowers will default in July, followed by one million in August and two million more in September. "We continue to see more and more federal student loan ...