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How Student Loans Are Affected by a Government Shutdown: What to Know
The Department of Education (ED) will continue many of its core operations during the Government shutdown with student loan borrowers expected to make payments on their debt and aid still dispersed, a...

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Do you still have to pay student loans during the government shutdown? What to know
The Department of Education is shutdown, but federal student loan payments are still due
Trump uses government shutdown to dole out firings and political punishment
President Donald Trump has seized on the government shutdown as an opportunity to reshape the federal workforce and punish detractors, by threatening mass firings of workers and suggesting “irreversib...

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From Florida's Everglades to California's Golden Gate Bridge, the Shutdown in Photos
Government shutdown live updates: President Trump and Democrats dig in as federal employees face furloughs
What’s open, closed during a federal government shutdown? Mail, Social Security continue
During a government shutdown, all federal agencies and services deemed non-essential must stop working, affecting thousands of federal employees and, in turn, millions of Americans.

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The Latest: Trump uses government shutdown to dole out firings and punishment
Government Shutdown Takes Hold With Mass Layoffs Looming and No End in Sight

Trump’s Student Loan Repayment Changes: What To Know

The Department of Education has begun a negotiated rulemaking session to implement changes to student loan repayment.
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Student Loans 101: Why Uncle Sam is your banker

WASHINGTON (AP) - As Congress scrambles to pull back a messy student loan increase, it raises the question: Why did Uncle Sam get into the college loan business, anyway? The short answer: Because the Russians launched Sputnik. A look at the 55-year history ...

What Happens to Student Loans if Rates Fall?

"Most private student loans base interest rates on the one-month or three-month SOFR index," says Mark Kantrowitz, president of PrivateStudentLoans.Guru. "The three-month index will effectively phase in the interest-rate reduction over a three-month period."

California student loan delinquencies surge: 1 in 10 borrowers more than a month behind in payments

About one out of every ten California student loan borrowers is at least 30 days late on payments following the end of a federal pause on loan payments, according to a new analysis released Wednesday.

Boomers, Gen X, Millennials or Gen Z? Who's hurting most from student loans in California

That's more than triple the number who were behind at the start of the pandemic in 2020. Delinquency rates stood at 12% for Boomer, Gen X and Millennial borrowers. For Gen Z, the delinquency rate was lower,
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