When federal student loan borrowers refinance their debt, they often forfeit a number of consumer protections, experts warn.

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Student loan borrowers enjoyed a few years of freewheeling travel when payments were paused. Now, that lifestyle is crashing ...

As October draws closer, millions of Americans are preparing for a stark reality they haven’t faced in over three years: the restart of federal student loan payments. The pandemic-induced ...

Payments on federal student loans resumed in October. For one-third of American households with student loan debt, that means fitting an extra $1,000 expense into an already stretched budget.

Ruwa Romman spent three days trying to reach her federal student loan servicer to get answers about her graduate school debt. She eventually got someone who could help, but the delay was just one ...

Justin Brown, a father of a 2-year-old who lives with his wife in the St. Louis, Missouri area, has $20,000 in student loan debt. Before the pause on loan payments at the start of the pandemic in 2020 ...

Many warned early on that student loan borrowers could run into a few hiccups as a massive reboot of monthly payments kicked off in October. And those experts did not disappoint. About 305,000 ...