April 25, 2024
Loans

Student loan repayment webinar on April 9; aims to help sort scams from real assistance

MADISON – People working long hours, sometimes at two jobs, to pay down their student loans do not always have time to carefully sort through all the information to separate the help from the scams. The webinar is a joint effort of the Wisconsin Department of Financial Institutions, the Wisconsin Department of Agriculture, Trade and

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Finance

Thousands of financial aid applications need to be fixed after latest error

WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. Education Department said it has discovered a calculation error in hundreds of thousands of student financial aid applications sent to colleges this month and will need to reprocess them — a blunder that follows a series of others and threatens further delays to this year’s college applications. A vendor working

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Loans

How The Student Loan Safety Net Backfired

stage a rally in front of The White House to celebrate President Biden cancelling student debt and to begin the fight to cancel any remaining debt on August 25, 2022 in Washington, DC. (Photo by Paul Morigi/Getty Images for We the 45m) Getty Images for We the 45m Income-driven repayment (IDR), which allows federal student

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Funds

As Relief Funds Expire, Harvard’s Kane Says ‘Whole Generation’ Still Needs Help – The 74

Get stories like these delivered straight to your inbox. Sign up for The 74 Newsletter Harvard University researcher Tom Kane stood before a captive audience at Washington’s Omni Shoreham hotel last Wednesday, just hours after dropping the report everyone was talking about.  Offering the best look yet at students’ recovery from pandemic learning loss, it

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