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Serious federal student loan delinquency, marked when someone fails to pay for 90 days, surged from below 1 percent in the first quarter last year, during the five-year reporting pause ...

Getting back into the swing of paying student loans isn't easy. I wasn't too surprised that a new study by TransUnion showed that more than 20% of federal student loan borrowers were late on their ...

This includes overdue child support or student loans. Borrowers will be given a 30-day warning before garnishment begins. A loan is officially in default after 270 days without a single payment.

All the student ... payment pause may have delayed your forgiveness. In this case, you might benefit from the PSLF buyback program. The PSLF buyback program lets you "buy back" months where your ...

"I was kind of unsure as to how that [student loan] process went," she says. "It could have been a bit of naiveness [sic], but I wasn't really sure who I was supposed to pay back. I just feel like ...

We now know, for example, that millions of student ... for failing to pay. This was accomplished by keeping under wraps how many borrowers were in default on their student loans.

Millions of student loan borrowers saw their credit scores drop by more than 100 points after student loan payment delinquencies ... and delinquencies were back on credit reports during the ...