Though the typical car payment has reached its highest levels since 2012, any Fed increase isn’t expected to make a meaningful difference — at least not yet.“Car loan rates will […]
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Back to news homeNavient’s $1.7 Billion Student Loan Settlement Was Too Good to Be True
After years of struggling to make payments that hardly put a dent in the loans she took out to attend a now defunct arts school, Victoria Linssen saw a glimmer […]
6 Who Finally Got the Public Service Loan Forgiveness They Earned
When the Department of Education announced a plan to fix many hellish problems with its Public Service Loan Forgiveness program, hundreds of thousands of beleaguered borrowers held their breath.Since 2007, […]
Navient Reaches $1.85 Billion Deal Over Predatory Lending Claims
Ms. Hardin enrolled in the Brooks Institute of Photography, one of the schools covered by the settlement, in 2006. After nearly a decade of payments, which included a period of […]
What to Know as Student Loan Repayments Restart in February 2022
There’s a confusing assortment of plans available, and there may even be a new one coming, though probably not for a while. For now, the alphabet soup includes PAYE, REPAYE, […]
Sharing Hard-Won Money Lessons to Build Generational Wealth
Julien and Kiersten Saunders, creators of the blog Rich & Regular, go so far as to call “retirement” the “R word.” Gaining that independence is crucial now, they say, not […]
Troubled Student Loan Forgiveness Program Gets an Overhaul
The Biden administration is overhauling a student loan forgiveness program for public service employees that had become a notorious quagmire, introducing a sweeping set of fixes on Wednesday that Education […]
What if Federal Student Loan Interest Rates Just Stayed at 0% Forever?
Federal student loan borrowers won’t have had to pay a dime of interest on their debt for nearly two years by the time the pandemic-era forbearance period ends in February. […]
$10 Billion in Student Loan Debt Erased Under Biden, but Calls Grow for More
Finally, on Tuesday, an email arrived saying she had receive a 100 percent discharge.“I cried,” said Ms. King, who hopes she can now afford computer classes at her local community […]
$10 Billion in Student Debt Erased Under Biden, but Calls Grow for More
Finally, on Tuesday, an email arrived saying she had receive a 100 percent discharge.“I cried,” said Ms. King, who hopes she can now afford computer classes at her local community […]