Trump Administration to Resume Student Loan Wage Garnishments

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Source: Newsweek

Published Dec 22, 2025 at 05:39 PM EST updated Dec 22, 2025 at 07:45 PM EST


The Trump administration will begin garnishing wages from people who have defaulted on their student loans early next year, the Education Department confirmed Monday to The Washington Post.

Why It Matters

Student loan collections were first suspended under President Donald Trump during the early days of the coronavirus pandemic, with Congress later extending the pause. President Joe Biden’s administration prolonged the moratorium and introduced a program allowing borrowers in default to rehabilitate their loans, though many remained unresolved.

Monday's announcement is among a host of major overhauls of the federal student loan repayment system coming in 2026. Many of the changes stem from President Donald Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA), which was signed into law in July.

What To Know

Beginning the week of Jan. 7, the department told The Post it will notify about 1,000 borrowers in default that a portion of their pay will be withheld to cover past-due debt. The department said additional notices will be sent to larger numbers of borrowers in the months that follow. Newsweek has reached out to the Education Department via email on Monday afternoon for comment.

Read more: https://www.newsweek.com/student-loan-update-wage-garnishment-donald-trump-11257483

[BradBo]

1. This will get ugly.

[Icanthinkformyself]

3. The billionaires

need the income to buy more politicians. I wonder what the banks are paying to the Convicted Felon for this program designed to hold those at the bottom down. Education should be free. We can afford to educate every child through college. We just need to grow a pair, vote for progressives and pass a wealth tax of, oh, say 20%. As a matter of fact, how about a tax that reduces wealth to a couple hundred million, maximum. Billionaires are the bane of society, a cancer of greed we need to remove. No one has that kind of wealth without criminal activity being a large part of the portfolio. They got it by hook and crook.

[ck4829]

4. ... Golden Age!

[travelingthrulife]

5. But we can say Merry Christmas again. Isn't it all just worth it?

[dalton99a]

6. Kick

[Gymbo]

7. I say let them do whatever it takes

to get people to the polls for the midterms. There is a payback for this greedy cruelty.

[Nigrum Cattus]

8. more hatred of the working class

people just trying to make a better life & they shit on them