Debt & Savings
Millions of Student Loan Borrowers Still Aren’t Making Payments
About a third of Americans with education debt are delinquent, according to the latest data.
Graduating students during a commencement ceremony in Kentucky.
Photographer: Jon Cherry/Getty ImagesRoughly a third of federal student loan borrowers are behind on their payments, resulting in massive hits to their credit scores.
About 29% of borrowers — or 5.4 million people — were delinquent on their loans in June, meaning they haven’t made a payment in 90 days or more, according to new data from TransUnion. That’s just slightly down from the record high of 31% reached in April.