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A bunch of red tape': Student-loan borrowers can't get clear answers from the companies that manage their debt

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A bunch of red tape': Student-loan borrowers can't get clear answers from the companies that manage their debt

Student-loan borrowers are trying to navigate Trump's repayment overhaul while facing hourslong hold times and conflicting information from servicers.

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Student-loan borrowers are trying to navigate Trump's repayment overhaul while facing hourslong hold times and conflicting information from servicers.

Student-loan borrowers are trying to navigate Trump's repayment overhaul while facing hourslong hold times and conflicting information from servicers. Student loan borrowers are scrambling to make sense of changing rules that will soon affect their ability to take on more debt, as well as their options to pay back what they owe.

Business Insider reported the story as "'A bunch of red tape': Student-loan borrowers can't get clear answers from the companies that manage their debt." Washington Examiner reported the story as "Everyone bought the college lie. Now we're all paying for it."

2 sources have covered this story, including Business Insider and Washington Examiner. The earliest reporting in the cluster landed about 1 day ago.

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Costs, unintended consequences, procedural concerns, elite-mismanagement narrative.
Affected-community testimony and structural-cause analysis.

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