Critical questions about the transfer of student loans to the Treasury Department remain unanswered, even as new details about the plan are coming into focus.

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More than 7 million student borrowers in the federal SAVE plan will need to move into new programs that could require higher loan payments, advocates said after a pair of court rulings this week dealt ...

The Trump administration on Tuesday announced that the Department of Education will undergo a partial dismantling, as multiple operations are to be shifted to partnerships with other federal agencies.

Big changes are in store for the federal student loan program. President Trump’s tax and spending bill, which was signed into law last summer, ends a supplemental loan for graduate students and caps ...

The final regulation keeps a narrow definition of professional degrees that are subject to the higher annual and lifetime graduate loan limits.

The One Big Beautiful Bill Act sets new loan limits on what it categorizes as "professional" graduate programs. An Education Department proposal defining which graduate degrees fall into the ...

College students who graduate this spring will enter a radically different federal student loan landscape, following the passage of President Donald Trump's "big beautiful bill" last year and other ...