student loans

HILL: King Joe Biden and the student loan Jubilee

April 24, 2024 Frank Hill

Student loans have been a problem for a long time. Every policymaker in Washington, D.C., has known it. Universities pocket full tuition from loans even if a student drops out after one day of class. […]

It’s almost time to resume student loan payments. Not doing so could cost you

July 3, 2023 Cora Lewis and Adriana Morga, Associated Press

NEW YORK — After three years, the pandemic-era freeze on student loan payments will end soon. Student loan interest will start accruing on September 1 and payments are starting in October. It might seem tempting […]

Feds propose ‘student loan safety net’ alongside forgiveness

January 12, 2023 The Associated Press

WASHINGTON, D.C. — The White House is moving forward with a proposal that would lower student debt payments for millions of Americans now and in the future, offering a new route to repay federal loans […]

Biden to extend student loan pause as court battle drags on

November 24, 2022 Collin Binkley and Chris Megerian, Associated Press

WASHINGTON, D.C. — President Joe Biden announced Tuesday that his administration will extend a pause on federal student loan payments while the White House fights a legal battle to save his plan to cancel portions […]

HILL: The public good versus the public ‘want’

May 4, 2022 Frank Hill

There is a move afoot in Washington where, by executive order, debt will magically be canceled for forty-six million adults, 16% of all households, who owe $1.75 trillion in student loans. According to a 2019 […]

Troubled student loan forgiveness program gets an overhaul

October 7, 2021 Collin Binkley, Associated Press

The Biden administration is temporarily relaxing the rules for a student loan forgiveness program that has been criticized for its notoriously complex requirements — a change that could offer debt relief to thousands of teachers, […]

COVID tax break could open door to student loan forgiveness

March 23, 2021 Anna Helhoski, NerdWallet

The tax break on college debt cancellations in the COVID-19 relief package signed last week by President Joe Biden has removed a potential roadblock to forgiving student loan debt: taxes . The provision won’t count […]

Students who got partial loan relief to see full discharge

March 19, 2021 Carole Feldman, Associated Press

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Students who were defrauded by their colleges and received only partial relief from their federal loans could now see them fully canceled, the Biden administration announced Thursday, reversing a Trump administration policy. […]

Take advantage of student loan breaks before 2020 ends

December 21, 2020 Ryan Lane, NerdWallet

Talk of student loan forgiveness has borrowers looking forward to 2021. But many already benefited from some unprecedented events in 2020: — An administrative forbearance has paused most federal loan payments interest-free since March. — […]

Opinion

GORDON: Don’t bar consumers from settling crushing debts

August 24, 2020 Tomas Gordon

In the midst of the worst recession since the Great Depression, some North Carolina legislators are proposing to make illegal a critical tool that more than 25,000 North Carolinians are using today to help manage […]