Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. By the time Patricia Gary contacted a lawyer to help her deal with her student loans, she'd paid $23,000 towards them and still ...

This October will mark the end of the three-year pause on federal student loan payments. The pause, initially part of COVID-19 student loan relief efforts, has been extended several times since March ...

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Three years of relief from payments on $1.6 trillion in student debt allowed for other borrowing and spending — and will shift into reverse. By Lydia DePillis Reporting from New York A bedrock ...

What prompted the call was a notice in 2019 that the government planned to take some of her Social Security check in order to repay the debt. Gary needed that money to afford food and medications, so ...