Key Points ・Short-term income drops during maternity leave can qualify borrowers for deferment, forbearance, or lower payments under income-driven repayment plans. ・Re-certifying income while earnings ...

Some of the pauses on student loans may offer borrowers temporary relief, while others are simply injecting even more ...

If you don’t understand it, that’s not your fault. It’s just phenomenally complicated,” says Winston Berkman-Breen, legal director at Protect Borrowers.

The month of February will be critical for certain borrowers pursuing student loan forgiveness, and hundreds of thousands of borrowers could be impacted.

Your student loan becomes delinquent as soon as you miss a payment, and the consequences become more serious the longer your ...

There are about 3.1 million federal student loan borrowers aged 62 or older. Many of these borrowers, who are in retirement, have trouble making payments on a fixed income.