Why Millions of Student Borrowers Could See a Big Drop in Their Credit Scores

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  Here's your Money Briefing for Wednesday, April 2nd.

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  I'm Adriana Aspuru for the Wall Street Journal.

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  Now that pandemic-era protections are over,

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  more than 9 million student loan borrowers could see their credit scores tank.

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  We reported that about 43% of borrowers who owe payments on federal student loans hadn't resumed making them,

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  and that was according to an analysis of government data by a Vantage score, a credit score provider.

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  So that's millions of people who are either seeing

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  that their credit scores are dropping pretty dramatically or on track to see those drops in the coming months.

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  We'll talk with Wall Street Journal reporter Oyan Atadoyan about what borrowers need to know if they're at risk.

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  That's after the break.

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  The pause on student loan payments helped borrowers' credit scores for years.

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  But that's over, and they're now in jeopardy.

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