The federal government is phasing out paper checks in favor of electronic payments. What does it mean for Social Security ...

The government can seize a borrower's entire federal tax refund, and in some states their state refund, to collect on a defaulted federal student loan. This only applies when the amount borrowed ...

Borrowers are urged to contact the Default Resolution Group to start that process ... the federal government isn’t processing applications for affordable loan payments,” Pierce told Checkbook.

Borrowers with direct federal loans who don't make ... days prior to beginning "offset," which is the process of withholding your government payments to satisfy your debt. You must take one ...

Linda McMahon, secretary of the U.S. Department of Education, said the federal government ... start the process of taking money from the paychecks of borrowers who have missed their payments ...

a previously obscure part of the United States Treasury which processes payments on behalf of the federal government. The alarm over this incursion was created by the resignation of the highest ...

If you’ve been laid off from the federal government ... You can also attest to past wages with a pay stub. “It’s a confusing process. Kind of be ready for the ride,” he said.

The federal government will resume ... loan holders will start the process of garnishing money from borrowers' paychecks if they have missed their payments for 270 days or more.