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ED Changes Grad PLUS Rule: Credit Hours Now Decide Who Keeps Uncapped Student Loans

The Education Department has quietly changed how it decides whether continuing graduate students can still borrow uncapped Grad PLUS loans, and the change is already generating denials for students who have been enrolled.During an August 12 Federal Student Aid webinar on the impl ...  Show more

Unions Sue To Block Student Loan Rule That Caps Nursing And Social Work Borrowing At $100,000

A coalition of four major unions (the AFL-CIO, AFSCME, the American Federation of Teachers, and National Nurses United) filed a lawsuit on August 11, 2026 (PDF File) in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia challenging the Department of Education's Reimagining and ...  Show more

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