Debt cancellation can erase what you owe under certain circumstances, but it's not always as simple as it sounds.

In what officials are calling a "milestone moment" for higher education loan borrowers, the U.S. Department of Education will send out emails on October 21, 2025, notifying two mil ...

Diccon Hyatt is an experienced financial and economics reporter who has covered the pandemic-era economy in hundreds of stories over the past two years. He's written hundreds of stories breaking down ...

A growing number of Americans are filing for bankruptcy in order to offload their student loan debt after a three-year payment hiatus. The Department of Justice said in a news release published ...

One of the key aims of the bankruptcy process is affording debtors a "fresh start" by granting them a discharge of their debts, However, the Bankruptcy Code has excepted certain debts that are ...

The Ninth Circuit, affirming the Tax Court, recently held that to deduct a nonbusiness bad debt, the debt must be “wholly worthless,” and if the debtor reports cancellation-of-debt (COD) income, the ...

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Financial struggles can feel overwhelming, especially if you're trying to juggle multiple issues, like mounting tax debt coupled with delinquent credit card bills or unpaid loans. Still, millions of ...