The U.S. Department of Education and the U.S. Department of the Treasury launched the Defaulted Loans Support Center on September 30, 2026, a new section of StudentAid.gov where borrowers with defaulted federal student loans can apply online to rehabilitate or consolidate their loans. According to the joint press release, the portal replaces “outdated websites and burdensome mail and fax-based processes” that have governed default resolution for decades.
It is the first major borrower-facing product to come out of the ED-Treasury partnership that moved defaulted loan collections to Treasury earlier this year.
The portal lives at studentaid.gov/default-support and uses a borrower’s existing StudentAid.gov login. That alone is a change from the old MyEdDebt.ed.gov system, which required a separate account tied to a Social Security number.
This is important give then fact that the Treasury takeover affects 7.8 million defaulted borrowers.