The Education Department quietly confirmed last week that student loan forgiveness for certain borrowers under several income ...

The Department of Education announced a joint settlement with Missouri and other Republican-led states this week that would end a student loan forgiveness program. Former President Joe Biden launched ...

Nearly one year after the Palisades and Eaton fires, survivors face the possibility of resuming mortgage payments on homes that no longer exist. Homeowners affected by the wildfires were given a ...

The Trump administration has put forward a proposal that could potentially bring millions of borrowers back into repayment from the Biden-era payment pause. The U.S. Department of Education on Tuesday ...

On September 22, 2025, California Governor Gavin Newsom signed Assembly Bill 238, which took immediate effect as an urgency statute. The new Mortgage Forbearance Act (the Act) can be found in section ...

Legislation that allows victims of the Jan. 7 fire storms to receive up to a year of mortgage relief was signed by Gov. Gavin Newsom as an urgency measure that takes effect immediately. Assembly Bill ...

Of the dozens of wildfire-related bills that legislators were quick to introduce in the wake of the wildfires that ravaged greater Los Angeles in January, roughly half of the ones tracked by Southern ...

A national consumer advocacy organization warns that the Total and Permanent Disability (TPD) federal student loan discharge program has become mired in administrative failures after the Department of ...

Thanks to the Biden-era program Saving on a Valuable Education (SAVE), a number of student loan borrowers have not been required to make their student loan payments. Unfortunately for those borrowers, ...

More than 5 million student loan borrowers in default may have a portion of their paychecks withheld. On May 5, 2025, the U.S. Department of Education announced that nearly 195,000 student loan ...

If your home is destroyed in a flood, you'll still need to make mortgage payments as usual. You can request a disaster forbearance to get relief from mortgage payments for a period of time. Check out ...