Student Aid Policy

Executive overreach or legal use of statutory authority? That will be a key question for the U.S. Supreme Court to consider when it hears arguments in two debt-relief lawsuits early this year.

Federal budget boosts maximum Pell Grant and funding for student success grant programs. Colleges and universities also are set to receive more than $1.5 billion for projects in earmarks.

Advocates are calling on the Education Department to shut down its system for wage garnishment until it can be deployed lawfully.

A task force won’t do the trick: congressional action is needed to address the problem of misleading financial aid offers, Wesley Whistle writes.

The Biden administration’s other plan to change how people pay back their loans could be safe from legal challenges.

But the injunction blocking student loan forgiveness remains in place for now.

Nearly two-thirds of colleges follow half or fewer of the 10 best practices in award letters. No college in GAO’s sample followed all 10.