A new study finds that two in five Americans would be denied private student loans based on an analysis of lenders' underwriting criteria. A disproportionate amount of low-income borrowers would fail ...

Federal student loans should be a borrower's first stop when figuring out how to borrow money to pay for college. Federal loans don't require a credit history or a cosigner and tend to have lower ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Adam Minsky is an attorney and writer focusing on student loans. A student loan borrower advocacy group has sued the Education ...

A Department of Education sign is displayed outside of their federal student aid office on June 3 in Washington, DC. Last year’s spending bill imposed a number of changes on how student loans are ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. Millions of Americans with student loan debt are about to experience ...

Changes to federal student loans expected to affect millions of borrowers took effect at the start of July. A part of President Donald Trump’s “Big Beautiful Bill,” these changes mean the end of some ...

The options for paying for college just changed in a big way. The Trump administration’s overhaul of federal student loans goes into effect Wednesday and caps how much people can borrow while limiting ...

Chris and Carolyn McAuliffe are in their 60s but don’t expect to retire anytime soon. They’re still paying off their student-loan debt, which has ballooned to a half-million dollars. “I regret going ...

Attention federal student loan borrowers: Major changes are coming your way, starting Wednesday. That’s when many of the provisions contained in President Donald Trump’s sweeping One Big Beautiful ...

(NEXSTAR) — If you owe back federal student loans, or are hoping to get some soon, you could be impacted by the widespread changes rolling out on Wednesday that cut back on repayment options and cap ...

July brings the most sweeping overhaul in decades of federal student loans. All borrowers, old and new, may be affected. New borrowers will face loan caps, elimination of Grad PLUS loans, and only two ...

GREENSBORO, N.C. — How students borrow federal money to go to college and how they pay it back all change as of July 1, 2026. HR-1, or what some call the One Big Beautiful Bill, overhauled the Federal ...