After a long pandemic pause, the federal government has flipped the switch back on for defaulted student loans, and the consequences are now hitting paychecks and tax refunds. Wage garnishment, tax ...

The announcement comes a little more than a week after the agency had planned to start warning borrowers their wages would be garnished Secretary of Education Linda McMahon said her agency would pause ...

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Borrowers struggling to pay their student loans still have time to explore repayment options before the Department of Education restarts collection efforts.