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Pressure is building on President Joe Biden to address the failures in the student loan system and cancel billions of dollars in debt before the pause on student loan payments expires at the end of September. Democrats and progressive organizations have warned that resuming student loan payments could blunt the...

Advocates and members of Congress, including Democratic Senators Chuck Schumer and Elizabeth Warren, are urging the Biden administration to extend the payment pause, based on concerns that the student loan system isn’t ready logistically for payments to resume and that borrowers aren’t financially prepared — a recent survey of 23,000...

Borrowers in the Public Service Loan Forgiveness program are reporting waiting for up to six months for approval of their forgiveness applications, often with little explanation why. Even though loan payments are paused for pandemic relief, borrowers still worry whether their approval will be processed before payments are set to...

Tens of millions of borrowers have their federal student loan payments on pause right now, thanks to governmental efforts to keep them out of financial trouble during the pandemic. But as soon as Oct. 1, a switch will flip and most of those people will need to start the repayment...

Led by the Student Borrower Protection Center, 128 organizations, including the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and Service Employees International Union (SEIU), sent a letter to Biden on Thursday urging him to extend the payment pause until the administration has followed through on its promises to fix the student-loan system...

On Thursday morning, more than 125 organizations also wrote to the president to extend the pause "until your administration has delivered on the promises you made to student loan borrowers to fix the broken student loan system and cancel federal student debt."

More than 125 organizations called on President Biden to fix the broken student loan system and deliver promised student debt relief before tens of millions of borrowers are forced to resume making payments. Due to an executive action taken on inauguration day, student loan payments, interest charges, and debt collection...

Millions of student loan borrowers could be at risk of having their child tax credit seized by the government. A generous expanded child tax credit was part of President Biden’s American Rescue Plan, the Covid-19 relief package that Congress enacted in the spring.

Unless the administration takes swift and decisive action, cash made available through one of “the most important tools that the nation has in its arsenal to fight poverty” will soon be denied to struggling student loan borrowers and instead intercepted by the Department of Education (ED).

More than 67,000 public servants are facing what could be years-long delays in getting the student debt relief promised to them through the Public Service Loan Forgiveness program. The cause boils down to what’s essentially the fine print on the program requirements.