The Small Business Administration has announced it is cutting half its workforce, triggering concern as the agency is also taking over the enormous student loan program. The agency is reducing the ...

Neither the Education Department’s Federal Student Aid office, which manages the loan program, nor SBA have provided a timeline or details of a plan to move the portfolio. But Education ...

Neither the Education Department’s Federal Student Aid office, which manages the loan program, nor SBA have provided a timeline or details of a plan to move the portfolio. But Education ...

As the president attempts to phase out the Education Department, the SBA will absorb federal student loan programs. It is unclear how many, if any, Education Department employees SBA will absorb ...

SBA Administrator Kelly Loeffler and President Donald Trump. Illustration: Inc; Photo: Getty Images As part of his plan to dismantle the Education Department, President Trump on Friday announced ...

It noted that the size of the student loan portfolio is roughly the size of some of the nation’s largest banks — although the office has a far smaller staff than those banks do. But the SBA is ...

Akers noted that since SBA currently manages its own loans, “it isn’t a crazy idea that they could pull this off.” “Frankly, the department has handled student loan administration poorly, so the bar ...

The SBA is downsizing at the same time it is taking on the $1.6 trillion loan portfolio, announcing a 43% staff cut the same day. Trump said the move would improve student loan servicing ...

Trump said student loans are moving out of the Department of Education and into the Small Business Administration. He also said that HHS will be taking over "special needs" and nutrition programs.

Small-business owners could pay thousands more in loan ... included the SBA in his efforts to wind down the Department of Education and said the SBA would be tasked with handling student loans ...