President Obama will travel to North Carolina, Colorado and Iowa next week in a campaign to convince Congress to prevent interest rates on federally-subsidized student loans from doubling in July. Subsidized Stafford ...

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has launched a beta version of the Financial Aid Comparison Shopper, an interactive tool for helping families plan for the costs of post-secondary education. The beta version ...

JPMorgan Chase, the nation’s largest bank, is sharply limiting its private student loan business to only existing customers starting in July. Banks and other private student lenders have been diminishing their ...

U.S. installment consumer credit grew at a slower pace in February than anticipated by economists, while credit card balances continued their 2012 decline, according to just-released Federal Reserve data. However, ...

The Federal Trade Commission has issued its final order settling charges that Upromise.com, a membership reward service for those saving for college, used a Web-browser toolbar to collect consumer data without adequate ...

Student loan debt has made headlines of late as the potential new bubble, overshadowing even the venerable American burden of credit card balances. U.S. student loan debt from private sources and federal programs ...

The U.S. Education Department is turning to private debt-collection companies to aggressively get borrowers to pay as much as possible of the roughly $67 billion of federal student loans in default. Earning commissions ...

U.S. student loan debt from private sources and federal programs has hit $1 trillion, according to the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. The new U.S. agency overseeing most loan products has made that estimate ...

Rates on federally subsidized student loans are poised to double in July for nearly 8 million borrowers – unless Congress takes action. So a coalition of consumer advocates made sure to remind lawmakers of the ...

For the first time, borrowers with issues about their private student loans have a U.S. agency that will register their complaints and potentially get lenders to provide a resolution. The Consumer Financial Protection ...