Angelica Leicht is the senior editor for the Managing Your Money section for CBSNews.com, where she writes and edits articles on a range of personal finance topics. Angelica previously held editing ...

The Education Department is attempting to disqualify employers whose staff with student loans would no longer be eligible for ...

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

While carrying high amounts of debt is rarely ideal, this issue isn't always the result of reckless spending. For many Americans, it's caused by the fallout of rising living costs, medical emergencies ...

You don’t need to be reckless with money to end up buried in debt. All it takes is one catastrophic event, sudden loss of a job, or a few months of “just getting by” – and suddenly, the interest ...

For many Americans, debt isn’t just a balance on a screen—it’s a daily weight. In a 2025 survey by financial services company JG Wentworth, it was found that nearly half of respondents worry about ...

The head of the Education Department pledged Saturday to keep "moving full speed ahead" on plans to implement President Joe Biden's student debt relief program, coming a day after a federal appeals ...