How five borrowers are preparing for their student loan payments to restart

Student loan payments resume this month, and millions of borrowers across the region are rearranging their budgets to make space for a monthly expense they haven’t had to think about in more than three years. Some who graduated during the pandemic will be making their first student loan payment. The restart comes after more than millions of Americans thought they would be seeing $10,000 or $20,000 of their debt wiped out under President Joe Biden’s plan, only to see the plan get struck down by the U.S. Supreme Court. The rollout has been far from smooth, with reports of long wait times for bor...