What will dismantling the Education Department mean for your student loans?
The Trump administration is gearing up for large changes to the Department of Education, which oversees a $1.6 trillion ...
What To Do if You Can’t Afford College: 5 Strategies
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A $2.7B Deficit Could Impact Students Who Receive Pell Grants
There’s a looming problem for students receiving federal Pell Grants: funds are running low as more students qualify.
FAFSA participation among high school seniors gets boost with state of Michigan grants
The State of Michigan is encouraging school districts to get more of their high school seniors filling out FAFSA.
What student loan borrowers can do with Education Department under threat
These developments may sound the alarm for student loan borrowers. But for now, there’s no need to make dramatic changes to ...
Could Trump’s freeze on federal loans and grants impact my student aid?
Late Monday evening, the Trump adminstration announced that federal loans and grants would be paused.A judge on Tuesday suspended the freeze until February 3 following a lawsuit, but the ultimate ...
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With Education Department Under Threat, What Student Loan Borrowers Can Do
Closing the department could negatively impact Pell Grants and other grants for low-income students ... the government will likely prioritize moving its Federal Student Aid office to the Treasury ...
At Least 10 Student Loan And Federal Aid Programs Run By The Department Of Education May Be Cut
Republicans are looking to cut or eliminate nearly a dozen student loan and federal aid programs administered by the ...
Looming $2.7 billion Pell Grant shortfall poses a new threat for college aid
The Congressional Budget Office last month released Pell Grant program projections, which now estimate a $2.7 billion funding ...
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Student group asks federal court to halt DOGE access to Education Department data
The complaint from the University of California Student Association asks the court to stop the agency from providing DOGE ...
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Despite chaos over Trump White House’s funding pause, FAFSA forms and student loans still available
A temporary freeze imposed briefly this week by the White House on federal grants and loans left many students wondering about the impact to the FAFSA form used to apply for financial aid. President ...
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5 Ways the Education Department Affects Higher Ed
Momentum is building around plans to dismantle the department, but what does it actually do for colleges, universities and ...