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In the land of student loans, there are no more glorious words than "paid off." There are plenty of ways to pay off your loans faster, but one of the best ways is probably to have someone else help you do it. 

Fortunately, dozens of companies have taken an important step to help employees pay off student loan debt by contributing money toward their loan balances. Here are 53 companies to check out if you're job hunting.

If you're banking on student loan forgiveness, we have some seriously bad news: Your chances of getting your loans forgiven through Public Service Loan Forgiveness (PSLF) are slim.

According to recent audit by Government Accountability Office (GAO), the U.S. Department of Education (DOE) has denied 99% of the PSLF applications that came in over the past year. Why all the denials? A mix of reasons, including:

• Borrowers who are not actually eligible for PSLF
• Borrowers who have not yet made 120 qualifying payments
• Borrowers who were on the wrong repayment plan, and
• Errors on applications.

We millennials are often portrayed as a strange breed—job hoppers but ambitious; purpose-driven rather than money-driven; and lazy yet constantly side-hustling. But what about when it comes to balancing careers with relationships?

In a recent survey, Comet asked more than 300 single, childless millennials how long they would stay single to focus on work and what kind of career sacrifices they would make for love. Here's the scoop.

If thinking about how to pay off your mounting bills has you stressed out and feeling like it won’t happen in this lifetime, then listen up: just because you’ve accumulated debt doesn't mean you have to live with it forever.

Here we’re going to discuss eight proven strategies that can help you start chipping away at your debt.

We've all heard the saying "money doesn't buy happiness." But researchers know that income is indeed associated with happiness. 

According to a recent study published in the journal Nature Human Behavior by Perdue University, people generally need about $65,000 to feel happy, but they need closer to $95,000 to feel financially secure. What may be even more interesting? Having more money than that threshold may actually decrease happiness.

Play a trivia game and get your student loans paid off. It sounds too good to be true, right? But for some people, this actually happened.

Yeah, we know—we didn’t believe it either. So we did a deep-dive into Givling. The fast take: Yes, it can help you pay off your student loans, but it's not a magic bullet. You'll need some time and patience to reach your own own payoff.