STUDENT LOANS

Florida has the third-largest number of borrowers in a new federal program trying to save people money while repaying student loans.

Time is running out!

Roughly 57,000 Florida residents paying student loans for decades are on track to walk away from those loans, provided they have been paying on time for 20 or 25 years, according to the Department of Education.

The Supreme Court is expected to announce major decisions Friday on President Joe Biden’s student loan forgiveness program and a case that impacts gay rights.

One in 5 U.S. families hold student loan debt in the U.S., according to recent data from the Federal Reserve Survey of Consumer Finances and those families are hoping that long term debt will go away very soon.

A public school teacher in Orlando was shocked when she received a bill for $1 million – 20 years after she thought she paid off her student loans, according to an article by CBS News.

A U.S. judge in Texas has blocked President Joe Biden’s plan to provide millions of borrowers with up to $20,000 apiece in federal student-loan forgiveness.

President Joe Biden on Monday officially kicked off the application process for his student debt cancellation program and announced that 8 million borrowers had already applied for loan relief during the federal government’s soft launch period over the weekend.

Nearly 2.43 million people in Florida are eligible for reductions or elimination of student-loan debt under a plan announced last month by President Joe Biden, according to numbers released Tuesday by the White House.

President Joe Biden’s student loan forgiveness plan could lift crushing debt burdens from millions of borrowers.

For the millions whose entire student debt is being wiped out, the Biden administration's announcement on forgiveness means new freedom to move, start a family or keep a low-paying but fulfilling job.

President Joe Biden says many Americans will be able to have up to $10,000 in federal student loan debt forgiven in they make less than $125,000 a year.

Florida ranks No. 10 for the highest debt in federal and private student loans among borrowers, according to data from the Lending Tree.

New rules proposed by the Biden administration on Wednesday would make it easier for borrowers to get their federal student debt forgiven through several existing programs.

McDonald’s is offering to help Georgia workers with their student loan debt.

The Biden administration plans to freeze federal student loan payments through Aug. 31, extending a moratorium that has allowed millions of Americans to postpone payments during the coronavirus pandemic.