On September 22, 2025, California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed the Mortgage Forbearance Act into law, with an immediate effective date. The law, designed to provide emergency relief to California mortgage ...

We live in a world where things happen faster than we can often wrap our minds around, stress is stitched into our daily life like a second skin, anger and irritation simmer just beneath the surface, ...

The U.S. Department of Education has resumed the Income-Based Repayment (IBR) forgiveness program, providing long-awaited relief to borrowers awaiting student loan cancellation after a temporary pause ...

Most furloughed federal employees can apply for unemployment benefits in New York, according to the state Department of Labor, although they will need to pay them back after returning to work.

Lawmakers introduced dozens of wildfire-related bills this year. We highlight some the legislature recently passed.

In guidance issued Wednesday, Fannie and Freddie laid out alternative procedures for mortgage lenders to follow during the shutdown.

The consequences under Subchapter K and Sec. 1001 must be considered in a debt modification in which a lender takes an equity position in a debtor partnership and there is no reduction in principal.

Whether it's the pandemic or a weak job market or poorly conceived political protests, student loan collections are way down. Roughly a third of student lo ...