A short-lived program in the early 2000s allowed married couples to consolidate their student loans for a lower interest rate. Now, with no legal way to separate the loans, some want changes.
Taxpayers seeking access to some information about their taxes were to be required to submit to facial recognition software, a move that has raised privacy concerns.
With the Trump-era head of the FDIC stepping down, consumer protection groups see an opportunity to put an end to "rent-a-bank" loans with sky-high interest rates.
Check fraud has spiked in the U.S. as thieves use age-old tricks to swindle Americans out of their money and then sell bogus checks on the darknet, a monitoring group has found.
Taxpayers who file early and electronically should be able to avoid massive delays. But some of this year's changes will translate into smaller refunds.
The IRS is "in the roughest shape it's been in in 50 years," says former commissioner Mark Everson. The agency, he says, is understaffed, has more work than it can handle and is underfunded.
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The loan servicing giant has agreed to cancel student loan debts owed by roughly 66,000 borrowers as part of a settlement reached with 39 state attorneys general.
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