Debt relief programs can help struggling borrowers, but each option comes with different eligibility rules to know.

The Education Department forcefully defended a new rule that would strip student loan forgiveness eligibility for public service employers under the PSLF program.

NewtekOne, Inc. (NASDAQ: NEWT) ('NewtekOne”) announced that its bank subsidiary, Newtek Bank, National Association (the 'Bank”), launched the Newtek Seven Day Business Loan™: business loans of up to ...

Since 2005, student loan debt has increased by more than tenfold, growing from roughly $160 billion to over $1.7 trillion currently. During his term, President Biden forgave approximately $188 billion ...

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A Bozeman woman accused of obtaining relief funds via fraud admitted to charges regarding false employment and tax statements she made to receive a $613,000 loan, Montana U.S. Attorney Kurt Alme ...

A Delaware-based manufacturing company with a location in New Jersey was accused of defrauding a COVID-19 relief fund and has reached a settlement with federal prosecutors, authorities said. Between ...

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About 400 government employees investigated by the state of Illinois improperly tapped a federal pandemic relief fund program meant to keep small businesses afloat — part of a nationwide wave of ...

The federal Repayment Assistance Plan, or RAP, will be the newest student loan repayment plan. President Donald Trump’s “big, beautiful bill,” passed in 2025, made many changes to federal student loan ...

Under the Trump administration, hundreds of thousands of student loan borrowers remain stuck in a backlog of applications for an affordable repayment plan or debt forgiveness, a new court filing shows ...

The U.S. Department of Education plans to end a student loan debt forgiveness program used by millions of Americans. The feds said Dec. 9 that they had reached a proposed court settlement to kill the ...