Understand the types, eligibility and repayment plans for federal student loans Staff Personal Finance Editor, Buy Side Valerie Morris is a staff editor at Buy Side and a personal finance expert.

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In most cases, regular loan payments begin after the loan grace period, or 6 months after the student graduates, leaves school, or drops below half-time enrollment. Repayment will initially be ...

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These fixed-rate, federally guaranteed loans are processed through the Federal Direct Loan Program. Loans will be issued in the student’s name, and the student will be responsible for repayment. To be ...

Federal Direct PLUS Loans are available to graduate or professional students (Grad PLUS) and parents of dependent undergraduate students (Parent PLUS). Direct PLUS loans can help cover the remaining ...

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CHICOPEE, Mass. (WWLP) – Many students need to take out federal student loans to help pay their way through their college careers. Classes to resume following fire at American International College ...

The total U.S. student loan debt is nearly $1.8 trillion, according to the Education Data Initiative. This breaks down to an estimated $41,618 in total average student loan debt. If you have student ...

With some of the Biden administration's most ambitious plans for student loan forgiveness scuttled or unlikely to take effect anytime soon, the Education Department is pulling harder on one lever that ...