Moving federal student loans to another agency is the latest proposal in the ongoing effort to dismantle the Department of ...

The Department of Education oversees federal student loans held by nearly 43 million people, or one in six American adults.

The Department of Education took a key step to initiate a process that could result in major changes to federal student loan ...

Trump said "special needs" education and nutrition programs will be handled by HHS and the Small Business Administration will ...

The White House wants to close the federal education agency, but experts say students should fill out the Free Application ...

The Department of Education has claimed immunity from a lawsuit taken by students trying to stop massive federal cuts. The ...

Hundreds of users reported FAFSA outages to Downdetector starting midday Wednesday, saying they were having trouble ...

Three lawmakers recently proposed slashing student loan interest to 2%. Could this game-changing bill save you thousands?

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The Education Department temporarily paused these applications after the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit ruled ...

As part of the federal government's plan to gut the Department of Education, the agency cut half of its workforce, which could impact how it administers its student loan programs.

"Borrowers do not have a path to loan forgiveness because DOGE has accessed federal student loan databases," student loan ...