The studentaid.gov website was down for hours Wednesday after the Education Department laid off half its workforce. Downdetector saw hundreds of users report the outage of the Free Application for ...

・You can confirm who owns your student loans and how much you owe through official federal and credit-reporting tools. ・Federal borrowers should verify balances and loan types directly on ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Adam Minsky is an attorney and writer focusing on student loans. The Department of Education appears to have removed a key new ...

A good first step is to go to StudentAid.gov, which is the place for all the information regarding your federal student loan.

The National Student Loan Data System is a government database for federal student aid. Students can access their data on StudentAid.gov Written By Written by Contributor, Buy Side Becca Stanek is a ...

GREENSBORO, N.C. — Starting this week, the government is sending out notices about garnishing the wages of student loan borrowers who are in default. It's serious, we're talking 15% out of a paycheck.