Everything Student-Loan Borrowers Need to Know About Wage Garnishment

Student loan borrowers who are seriously behind on payments could start seeing their paychecks docked

starting early this year, but there is still time to get back on track. 

The Education Department said that it expects the first wave of wage garnishment notices to be sent this week and that notices will increase in scale monthly. It is the latest step by the Trump administration to get federal student-loan borrowers back into repayment after an extended forbearance period that started in the pandemic.