Published on: 2025-06-15 23:45:03
Pla2na/Getty Images/CNET It's been a trying year for anyone enrolled in the Saving on a Valuable Education student loan repayment plan. There's been a barrage of student loan updates in 2025: proposed changes to Public Service Loan Forgiveness eligibility, an effort to restart collections on defaulted student loan accounts and a new Republican-fronted bill seeking to change existing income-driven repayment plan options. But the biggest news for most borrowers has been the court ruling blocking
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Pla2na/Getty; CNET If you're one of the eight million borrowers who signed up for the Saving on a Valuable Education student loan repayment plan, you're probably wondering what's next for your student loans. There has been a barrage of student loan updates since President Donald Trump's administration came into office, including proposed changes to Public Service Loan Forgiveness eligibility, an effort to restart collections on defaulted student loan accounts and a new Republican-fronted bill
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Borrowers are left with unanswered questions in the wake of several student loan policy shifts. The Washington Post via Getty; Design by Zooey Laio/CNET Student loan policy has experienced extreme shifts in the past few years, and we may not have seen the last of these changes yet. In the past four months we've witnessed the end of the Saving on a Valuable Education (SAVE) income-driven repayment plan, and borrowers with defaulted student loan balances now face wage garnishment. President Trum
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Jemal Countess/Getty Images What's going on with student loans? It's a question that's difficult to pin down when the answers seem to shift every week. As a reporter who's covered student loans since the beginning of the pandemic, and a borrower myself, it's a topic I'm dialed in on, and even I'm finding it hard to keep track of all the changes. News of wage garnishments, restarting payments for SAVE borrowers and even the decision to potentially move the student loan portfolio from the Depar
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Getty Image/Zooey Liao/CNET All of the confusion surrounding higher student loan payments and wage garnishment has experts warning borrowers to beware of scammers preying on your desperation. Elaine Rubin, a student loan policy expert, says borrowers should be on high alert for student loan scams offering to lower their payments, get their debt canceled or make sure their wages aren't being garnished. "All the noise, the concern and the fear starts to bring about more predatory or scam compan
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-25 23:31:45
Getty Image/Zooey Liao/CNET All of the confusion surrounding higher student loan payments and wage garnishment has experts warning borrowers to beware of scammers preying on your desperation. Elaine Rubin, a student loan policy expert, says borrowers should be on high alert for student loan scams offering to lower their payments, get their debt canceled or make sure their wages aren't garnished. "All the noise, the concern and the fear starts to bring about more predatory or scam companies to
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-10-30 11:30:00
If you're holding out hope for more affordable student loan payments or even forgiveness, the future may look bleak. Following the Feb. 18 appeals court ruling against SAVE, experts have encouraged SAVE borrowers to explore other income-driven repayment (IDR) plans. However, the Department of Education recently closed applications for all IDR plans. How long will borrowers have to wait to sign up for an IDR or switch from SAVE to another plan? Experts aren't certain. "It's unclear how long ID
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