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In this series, we’re talking to people who’ve paid off their student loans, breaking down how they did it and what they learned. Zina Kumok graduated from Indiana University in 2011 with a bachelor’s ...

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Student loan default doesn’t mean your credit is ruined for life. While missed payments and a default will show up on your credit report and certainly do decrease your credit score, there are steps ...

For anyone getting a refund, tax season is the best time of year. But for those who have defaulted on their federal student loans, their potential joy can be seized by the IRS to pay down the federal ...

When I started at the Department of Education in the 1990s, student loans were a popular middle-class benefit. College affordability or student loan debt were rarely front-page news. Our dingy offices ...

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