Key Points ・More than 20% of borrower defense claims involve public or private nonprofit colleges, not just for-profit ...

To combat the millions in fraud, the Department of Education has reinstated several fraud detection tools for the 2024–25 and 2025–26 FAFSA cycles over the past few months.

The scammers fraudulently secured $9,000 in federal student loans using her identity; the money was ultimately sent to someone else. “I just can’t imagine how many people this is happening to ...

Identify fraud victims who never attended college are hit with student debt Brittnee Nelson of Shreveport, Louisiana, was bringing her daughter to day care two years ago when she received a ...

When she checked her student loan servicer account, Brady saw the scammers hadn't stopped there. A loan for over $9,000 had been paid out in her name — but to another person — for coursework ...

We asked how much student debt is okay, and how much is too much. One in five senior citizens and almost a quarter of adults between the ages of 35 to 49 agree that $20,000 to $50,000 in student ...

The plea agreement said Michele Denise Hawkins and "other purported students" received over $73,000 from March 2009 to September 2010 and more than $17,000 in loan refunds.