What Student Loan Borrowers Can Do if They're Facing Wage Garnishment: 'Early Action' Is Critical, Advisor Says

Here’s How You Can Challenge Wage Garnishment for Defaulted Student Loans

The Trump administration announced that this week it will start forcibly collecting money from student loan debtors.

Trump Administration Decision Brings Back Involuntary Wage Garnishments For Defaulted Student Loan Borrowers

By Tevon Blair ·Updated January 9, 2026 Getting your Trinity Audio player ready… As unemployment rates continue to rise, the Trump Administration is set to resume wage garnishments for student loan borrowers in default as early as this month. This decision would become the first time the federal government would enforce loan repayments since collections were paused in March 2020 as a result of the global COVID-19 pandemic. Between March 2020 and…

Student loan debt: What to know about wage garnishment

A pandemic‑era pause on federal student loan collections has come to an end.  “The clock is ticking,” said Ted Rossman, senior analyst at Bankrate, as the Trump administration moves forward with plans to garnish the wages of millions of borrowers who are behind on their federal student loans.  “Wage garnishment basically means that a lender — or in the case of federal student loans, the federal government — can seize some of your paychecks,” Ros…

What student loan borrowers can do if they're facing wage garnishment: 'Early action' is critical, advisor says

The Department of Education began sending notices of coming wage garnishment to over 1,000 defaulted student loan borrowers.

Student loan borrowers: The Education Department is garnishing wages for millions in default. Here is who is affected and how much they can take

Wage garnishment "is a scary concept since they can take 15% of after-tax income," Ashley Morgan, debt and bankruptcy attorney and owner of Ashley F. Morgan Law PC, told Fortune.

Student loan borrowers in default could see their wages garnished

Beginning this week, student loan borrowers could receive a notice that the federal government is coming for their paycheck.  The post Student loan borrowers in default could see their wages garnished appeared first on WPR.