About 22.3% of people with student loans in Texas are now in default, meaning they’re nine months or more behind on their payments, the Associated Press found in a nationwide analysis. Around 9.5 million U.S. student-loan borrowers, or more than 1 in 5, are in default, and many of those fell behind on payments as […]
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1 in 5 Texas student-loan borrowers are now in default
The numbers fit with a U.S. trend. Defaults nationwide jumped by 4.2 million from April 2025 to March 2026, according to an Associated Press analysis.