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The One Big Beautiful Bill Act proposes significant changes to federal student loan programs that could impact millions of educational borrowers. Most impacts will be felt in 2026, but some will start ...

Learn about the limits on federal and private student loans, factors affecting your borrowing capacity, and tips for managing your debt.

Understand the types, eligibility and repayment plans for federal student loans Staff Personal Finance Editor, Buy Side Valerie Morris is a staff editor at Buy Side and a personal finance expert.

Understand what capitalized interest means, how it works, when it happens with student loans, and the impact on your total debt.

Interest rates on subsidized Stafford Loans are set to double July 1, 2013. June 3, 2013— -- You've heard vague mentions of interest rates doubling on some student loans and it makes your stomach ...

Big changes are coming to the federal student loan program, and if you're a current borrower, a parent planning for college or someone considering graduate school, it's important to know what's ahead.

The question of whether college students should take out federal or private student loans to pay for their education may have just gotten harder to answer. That's due to a number of changes in ...

Last June's college graduates face a tough choice this month when the automatic six-month deferment on their student loans expires. Never have students been so deep in debt and so unprepared to pay.