Ron Lieber

The White House released an executive order instructing the secretary of education to begin shutting down the department — but not to cancel your debt.

With employees from the so-called Department of Government Efficiency poking around in agency systems, faith in data security isn’t what it once was. The tool, an identity protection PIN, can help.

Los lectores se preocuparon después de que Musk y su equipo tuvieron acceso a los sistemas de pago federales. Aquí te explicamos cómo hacer copias de seguridad de todos tus datos y documentos.

Readers worried after Mr. Musk and his team were given access to federal payment systems. Here’s how to back up all your data and documents.

Students and parents panicked after news of the order, but the Education Department said the guidance would not stop the flow of money to students and schools.

A billionaire gave $1,000 to University of Massachusetts Dartmouth graduates in May. You had to be there.

“Too many of us now tend to worship self-indulgence and consumption,” he said in his 1979 “Crisis of Confidence” speech. If only we had listened.

The rollout of the new student aid form last year was a debacle. This year’s beta testing has gone better. Next up: millions of users and a new administration.

Readers had questions about individual retirement accounts, distributions and access to brokerage accounts if they moved away from the U.S. Here are some answers.

There is widespread concern that President-elect Donald J. Trump may end it, since he has tried before. But that may be the wrong thing to fear.