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The federal government resumed student loan debt collection on May 5, meaning borrowers in default can risk wage garnishment, withholding of government benefits and refunds, and negative impacts to credit scores if they don't start repaying loans.

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Student loan collections are back. What borrowers need to know to avoid wage garnishment or credit damage.

Happy Hour at the Air Grille Garden at Dilworth Park on the west side of City Hall on June 1, 2022. Center City District Sips are back in June.

Happy hour, then dinner? Center City Sips now comes with dinner discounts

The Streets Department demonstrates their new four-foot wide mechanical broom (Ravo street sweeper truck) in North Philadelphia Aug. 2, 2021. .

2025 Street Sweeping: Full list of neighborhoods and cleaning zones

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A patient receives the monkeypox vaccine at the Dr. Ala Stanford Center for Health Equity in North Philadelphia in 2022. The Black Doctors Consortium hosted the clinic.

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Where to find free vaccines in Philadelphia this winter

Trash & recycling

Philadelphia trash collector Mamadou Sacko empties a trash can on a route in the Northeast in 2014.

Trash & recycling

How early can you put out your trash in Philly? Your garbage questions, answered.

Sabrina Raheem (left) and Chimera Quattlebaum greet each other with a hug at the annual end-of-year Feast of Giving Community Celebration at Philadelphia Masjid in West Philadelphia on Saturday. “It’s all about nurturing and showing love” said Raheem.

Philadelphia Masjid hosts a ‘feast of giving’ with free food and a focus on love

PHL departures

Flying for the holidays? These are the best and worst airlines at PHL

A photo collage illustration of Philly sports mascots Swoop, Gritty, and the Phillie Phanatic subway surfing to the South Philadelphia Sports Complex, alongside a fan riding their bike.

A guide to public transit and car-free transportation to Philly sports games

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A unidentified voter exits the polling place on Tuesday, Nov. 5, at Bensalem High School in Bensalem.

Trash & recycling

How to recycle campaign yard signs in the Philadelphia region

Tyea Mitchell of West Oak Lane deposits her mail-in ballot in a box at the temporary drop-off site on the Temple University campus on North Broad Street Sunday, Nov. 5, 2023.

Where to drop off your mail ballot in Philadelphia