The transfer of defaulted student-loan from the Education Department to the Treasury brings back agencies once criticized for predatory behavior.

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If borrowers do not successfully resume repayment, the number of delinquent and defaulted borrowers could reach 12.54 million ...

Student loan payments are complicated enough, but when private lenders transfer loans to another servicer, they get really ...

US Secretary of Education Linda McMahon speaks during the daily briefing in the Brady Briefing Room of the White House in Washington, DC, on November 20, 2025. On January 16, 2026, the Education ...

The Education Department will begin collection next month on student loans that are in default, including the garnishing of wages for potentially millions of borrowers, officials said Monday.

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The private student loan market figures to benefit from Republican-led changes to the much larger federal program. But other ...

'I just keep hoping that it will just magically go away or I'll just die': A growing feature of the nation's $1.7 trillion student-debt crisis is Americans living with student loans for their entire ...

The Government is attempting to claw back £1.3bn in taxpayer cash from UK graduates overseas by sending them texts.