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If you're enrolled in the Saving on a Valuable Education repayment plan, expect your student loan payments to increase. Getty Images/CNET If you're one of the eight million student loan borrowers enrolled in the Saving on a Valuable Education (SAVE) plan, you may have seen student loan payments as low as $0. With the SAVE plan officially struck down, you might be worried about how much you'll be required to pay in the future. Although the Department of Education offers several other income-dri
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A home equity loan lets you borrow against your home equity, which is the difference between your home's market value and the remaining balance on your mortgage. Like home equity lines of credit (HELOCs), home equity loans are secured by collateral: your home. In general, home equity loans tend to have lower interest rates than personal loans or credit cards. That's because home equity loans are secured debt, which makes them less risky for the lender. The downside is that if you miss payments,
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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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LONDON — British online lender Starling Bank on Wednesday reported a sharp drop in annual profit, citing an issue with Covid-era business loan fraud and a regulatory fine over financial crime failings. Starling, which offers fee-free current accounts and lending services via a mobile app, posted profit before tax for the year ending March 31, 2025 of £223.4 million ($301.9 million), down nearly 26% year-over-year. Revenue at the bank totalled £714 million, up about 5% from £682 million a year
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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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Max Levchin, co-founder of PayPal and chief executive officer of financial technology company Affirm, arrives at the Sun Valley Resort for the annual Allen & Company Sun Valley Conference, in Sun Valley, Idaho. Affirm shares plunged on Friday after the fintech company issued a weak forecast, and investors questioned CEO Max Levchin's plan to go big in 0% loans. The buy now, pay later lender said revenue this quarter will be between $815 million and $845 million. The midpoint of the range was s
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If your federal student loans are in default, the Department of Education could begin garnishing your wages soon. Getty Images/Viva Tung/CNET If you're behind on your student loan payments, the Department of Education is about to use your paycheck to get your attention. The Department of Education announced it had resumed involuntary collections on student loans on May 5. That's the same day it began sending defaulted student loan borrowers a 30-day notice that their income tax refund and fede
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For the current quarter, Affirm is guiding for revenue between $815 million and $845 million — with a midpoint of $830 million, below the average estimate of $841 million, according to LSEG. Adjusted operating margin was 22%, compared to StreetAccount's estimate of 21.6%. Affirm reported net income of $2.8 million, or a penny a share, compared to a loss a year earlier of $133.9 million, or 43 cents a share. Revenue in the quarter rose 36% from $576 million a year ago . The company's key margin
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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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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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The Department of Education will begin sending defaulted student loans to collections on May 5. Google/ Zooey Liao/ CNET Time is running out if you're behind on your student loans, and your wages could be garnished this summer if you don't take action by Monday. After five years of payment pauses and delays, the US Department of Education announced that student loan payments and collections on student loans in default will resume on May 5. "The Biden administration misled borrowers: The execu
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Viva Tung/CNET The US Department of Education is resuming collection efforts on defaulted student loans starting on Monday. If you're more than nine months behind on your student loan payments, that means your wages could be garnished as soon as this summer. It may sound scary, but wage garnishment to pay off a debt isn't new. Currently, some Americans have their wages garnished to pay back taxes, child support and other debt, including student loans. It just might feel "new" since there were
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Viva Tung/CNET If your student loans are in default, the Department of Education could start garnishing your wages as soon as this summer. It may sound scary, but wage garnishment to pay off a debt isn't new. Currently, some Americans have their wages garnished to pay back taxes, child support and other debt, including student loans. It just might feel "new" since there were protections in place to allow borrowers in default time to catch up since the Covid-19 pandemic. But starting in May, pa
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You have until May 5 to get your student loans out of default before they are sent to collections. Getty Images/CNET If your student loans are in default, you may be worried about the recent announcement on wage garnishment. After five years of payment pauses and delays, the US Department of Education announced last week that student loan payments and collections will resume on May 5, with wage garnishment starting this summer. "The Biden administration misled borrowers: The executive branch d
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If your student loans are in default, you have until May 5 to stop them from being sent to collections. Getty Images/CNET The deadline is quickly approaching to stop your defaulted student loans from being sent to collections, which can result in the government garnishing your wages and possibly withholding your tax refund and Social Security benefits. After five years of payment pauses and delays, the US Department of Education announced last week that student loan payments and collections wi
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Billionaire and Tesla CEO Elon Musk's businesses have greatly relied on government funds, rescuing them from certain doom on several occasions. A prominent example was in early 2010, when Tesla received a $465 million loan through the Department of Energy's Loan Programs Office that allowed it to establish crucial supply lines for its Model S production and buy the Fremont factory in California from a bankrupt Toyota and General Motors venture. It was a massive, taxpayer-funded lifeline that c
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Borrowers with defaulted student loans have until May 5 to stop them from being sent to collections. Getty Images/CNET If your student loans are in default, you have just over a week to stop them from being sent to collections, which can result in the government garnishing your wages and possibly withholding your tax refund and Social Security benefits. After five years of payment pauses and delays, the US Department of Education announced April 21 that student loan payments and collections wi
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Brenner didn’t have to look for long. She met her match—Julie Lein, MBA ’12—soon after arriving at Sloan more than a decade ago. But their first encounter wasn’t exactly auspicious. In fact, their relationship began with an expletive. Lein was sitting at a card table in a hallway in E52, glumly selling tickets to a fashion show featuring work-appropriate clothes for women—at that time, the marquee event for Sloan’s Women in Management Club, and one that both Lein and Brenner thought was patent
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Student loans that are in default will go to collections starting May 5. Getty Images/CNET Starting in two weeks, defaulted student loans will be sent to collections, the US Department of Education announced Monday. Borrowers in default and hoping for debt forgiveness should take action before collections resume on May 5. "The Biden Administration misled borrowers: the executive branch does not have the constitutional authority to wipe debt away, nor do the loan balances simply disappear," Edu
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Student loans that are in default will go to collections starting May 5. jayk7/Getty Images/CNET Beginning in two weeks, defaulted student loans will be sent to collections, the US Department of Education announced Monday. Borrowers currently in default and hoping for debt forgiveness should take action before collections resume on May 5. "The Biden Administration misled borrowers: the executive branch does not have the constitutional authority to wipe debt away, nor do the loan balances simpl
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Getty Images/Zooey Liao, CNET Student loan repayment news is breaking so fast that it's difficult to keep track of all the changes. A recent update to the Department of Education's declarations about how a married borrower's payments are calculated for certain income-based plans led to confusion. Late last week, the Department of Education submitted a court filing that addressed married student loan borrowers enrolled in an income-driven repayment plan who had filed income taxes married but se
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Getty Images/CNET Millions of student loan borrowers like myself haven't made a student loan payment since March 2020. However, with the end of the Saving on a Valuable Education (SAVE) plan imminent, I'm making adjustments to prepare myself for a hefty monthly student loan bill. Like many borrowers, my federal student loans were placed into an emergency forbearance during the start of the pandemic in 2020. Before the pause, my monthly student loan payment was around $40. After moving onto the
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Getty Images/CNET More than 8 million borrowers have seen their credit scores drop because of student loan delinquencies, dragging down the average credit score in the US, according to a FICO analysis released today. The average FICO credit score slipped to 715, a one-point decline from January and a two-point drop since April 2024, according to the Fair Isaac Corporation, one of the major credit models used by lenders. Credit scores are a "lagging indicator of credit health" and could drop f
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Can the SAVE student loan plan be saved? Democratic lawmakers are attempting a rescue. Led by Sens. Jeff Merkley and Tim Kaine, a group of Democrats put forth the Savings Opportunity and Affordable Repayment (SOAR) Act, which would codify President Joe Biden's Saving on a Valuable Education (SAVE) plan and offer new protections for student loan borrowers. "I'm proud to introduce the SOAR Act, legislation that would codify, expand and strengthen the SAVE Plan to help student borrowers design a
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Can the SAVE student loan plan be saved? Democratic lawmakers are attempting a rescue. Led by Sens. Jeff Merkley and Tim Kaine, a group of Democrats put forth the Savings Opportunity and Affordable Repayment (SOAR) Act, which would codify President Joe Biden's Saving on a Valuable Education (SAVE) plan and offer new protections for student loan borrowers. "I'm proud to introduce the SOAR Act, legislation that would codify, expand and strengthen the SAVE Plan to help student borrowers design a
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If your credit has dropped recently, it could be caused by your student loans. According to the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, more than 9 million student loan borrowers could be affected by loan processors reporting delinquencies. Borrowers had previously benefited from pandemic forbearance and protections that prevented loan servicers from reporting delinquent borrowers to the credit bureaus. But starting this week, lenders can again begin reporting people who are behind on payments, which
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Got any suggestions for improving the federal student loan program and its forgiveness options? The Department of Education wants to hear them. The department announced in a press release today that it will invite public feedback on ways to streamline higher education regulations and federal aid programs. It specifically asked for ideas for improving the Public Service Loan Forgiveness (PSLF) program, the Pay As You Earn (PAYE) Repayment plan and the Income-Contingent Repayment (ICR) plan. "Th
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Mortgage rates won't drop signifcantly in the next few months, but you don't have to put off your homebuying plans. The mortgage rates you see advertised online are simply averages based on what borrowers are being offered at a given time. Depending on your financial profile, you could qualify for a significantly lower rate. By taking steps to improve your credit score and negotiating with multiple lenders, you can secure a better deal. In other words, if budgeting for a near-7% rate on your h
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