It has been a while since millions of people have had to make any federal student loan payments, thanks to a pandemic-driven pause that has put payments and interest on hold for more than three years. Since then, many borrowers have gone on with their lives in a post-pandemic world, working off budgets that didn’t need to take student loan payments into account, mindful of but perhaps unwilling to acknowledge the approaching T. rex in the rearview mirror. That’s all about to change. Student loan repayments will resume in October, and interest on those loans is set to begin accruing starting Friday. Read more through the link in the bio.