While the government is clearly making progress under some programs to discharge student loans, the situation is deteriorating for others. Here's a breakdown.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Department of Education’s office for handling student loan complaints has a backlog of 27,000 after the Trump administration ...

More than 83,000 federal student loan borrowers are waiting for a Public Service Loan Forgiveness Buyback application ...

In a recent court filing, the Education Dept. disclosed that more than 1.98 million income-driven repayment plan applications were pending as of the end of April. These plans cap student loan ...

The Education Department released a court-mandated update Monday revealing minimal progress on student loan forgiveness processing. The data, filed with a federal district court overseeing an ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An office housed in the U.S. Department of Education has a backlog of over 27,000 complaints from students and student loan ...

The Education Department disclosed the information in a May 15 court filing in response to a legal challenge lodged by the American Federation of Teachers. The teachers' union sued the Trump ...

Nearly 2 million federal student loan borrowers who've requested to be in an affordable repayment plan are stuck in a backlog of applications, waiting to be approved or denied, according to new data ...