When you take out a loan, you typically have to pay interest on the amount you borrowed. Interest is the cost of borrowing money — it’s how your lender earns a profit and offsets the risk of lending.

We did the math to figure out how much your monthly student loan payments could increase after the federal forbearance ends. Rebecca Safier is a personal finance writer and certified student loan ...

More than 1.6 million people in Illinois owe federal student debt. The Trump administration is trying to speed up their repayment. For Alexander Lundrigan, the Trump administration’s treatment of ...