Student Loan Default, Explained: What Actually Happens, and When
One in five federal borrowers is now in default. Here is the timeline, the consequences, and the specific steps out, in plain English.
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If you are behind on a federal student loan, or you are about to be, this is the page I want you to have. No outrage, no politics for the first half. Just the mechanism: what happens, on what day, and what you can actually do about it.
I will keep this piece updated as the rules change, because they are changing constantl…
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