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Two borrowers give their initial reactions to the Supreme Court's ruling to strike down the Biden Administration's initial student loan debt relief plan. Nearly 700,000 Washingtonians were eligible for relief.
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Washington state Attorney General Bob Ferguson says a major student loan servicer will provide about $45 million in debt relief and restitution to settle the state's lawsuit that alleged it deceived loan seekers and engaged in unfair practices.
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Washington lawmakers passed a "student loan bill of rights" earlier this year aimed at helping people with student-loan debt. The law created a new…
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Washington state is suing the nation's largest student loan company, joining the federal government and the state of Illinois in alleging unfair and…
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This election season, the student debt crisis has finally gotten the attention it deserves. A look at how we got here, who has profited and just a few of the lives affected.
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Colleges already list high sticker prices, but those prices still don't reflect the real cost of undergraduate life. And financial aid isn't effectively bridging the gap.
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Here are the tips, tools and calculators that can help make sense of all that debt.
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Families often pull together to help finance a college education, with parents and grandparents chipping in or co-signing loans. But when a federal student loan isn't paid back, the government withholds money from Social Security recipients.
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Congress passed a bill Friday to keep the interest rate on government-backed student loans from doubling. It's a victory for students, but other compromises by Congress could cost them a lot more in the long run.
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Congressional leaders say they are close to a deal on two issues with looming deadlines. But if Congress fails to lock down agreements this week, the federal highway program would come to a halt, and student loan interest rates would double.