{"id":47555,"date":"2026-09-29T15:38:09","date_gmt":"2026-09-29T15:38:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/financialrush.com\/?p=47555"},"modified":"2026-09-29T15:38:09","modified_gmt":"2026-09-29T15:38:09","slug":"trump-officials-extend-student-loan-interest-rate-discount-deadline","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/financialrush.com\/?p=47555","title":{"rendered":"Trump officials extend student loan interest rate discount deadline"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> \n<\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"InlineImage-imageEmbed\" id=\"ArticleBody-InlineImage-108229368\" data-test=\"InlineImage\">\n<div class=\"InlineImage-wrapper\">\n<div>\n<p>U.S. Education Secretary Linda McMahon speaks during a press briefing at the White House in Washington, D.C., U.S., November 20, 2025. <\/p>\n<p>Evelyn Hockstein | Reuters<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"group\">\n<p>The Trump administration <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ed.gov\/about\/news\/press-release\/us-department-of-education-announces-student-loan-interest-rate-reduction\" target=\"_blank\">announced<\/a> on Tuesday that it will extend the deadline for federal <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/student-loans\/\">student loan borrowers<\/a> to get a reduction of 1 percentage point on their interest rate. <\/p>\n<p>Previously, the U.S. Department of Education said borrowers had until the end of the day on Wednesday to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2026\/06\/24\/student-loan-borrowers-interest-rate-discount.html\">sign up for the automatic payments<\/a> and benefit from the reduced rate. Now it says federal student loan holders will have until Dec. 31. <\/p>\n<p>Nearly 2 million federal student loan borrowers have signed up for autopay since the discount became available over the summer, the department said.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>This is a developing story. Please check back for updates.<\/strong><\/em> <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2026\/09\/29\/trump-officials-extend-student-loan-interest-rate-discount-deadline.html\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"U.S. Education Secretary Linda McMahon speaks during a press briefing at the White House in Washington, D.C., U.S.,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":47556,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47555","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-investing","cs-entry","cs-video-wrap"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/financialrush.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47555","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/financialrush.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/financialrush.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/financialrush.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/financialrush.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=47555"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/financialrush.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47555\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/financialrush.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/47556"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/financialrush.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=47555"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/financialrush.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=47555"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/financialrush.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=47555"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}