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Is It Smart to Extend the Repayment Term on Your Consolidated Student Loan?

One of the benefits of student loan consolidation is that you can extend the repayment term from the standard 10 year repayment period out to 30 years. But is this a good idea? Pro: As Much As A 53% Lower Monthly Payment Extending the student loan repayment Read More...

6 Programs that will Pay Off Your Student Loans

Did you know that there are organizations that will pay off all or part of your student loans? It seems too good to be true, but this little known tidbit is an absolute fact. Could one of these programs repay all or part of your student loans? #1 Charitable Read More...

Advice for Students Entering Grad School

An excellent choice for many college graduates and especially those who are entering graduate school this fall is to consolidate their loans before they enroll. Recent legislation to reduce lender subsidies means many of the borrower discounts lenders Read More...

You Can Repay Student Loans AND Buy Health Insurance

It can be overwhelming. New college grads are tasked with finding a job, paying back student loans, finding transportation and a place to live. It’s no wonder that almost two out of every five recent college grads are without health insurance during some Read More...

AVOIDING STUDENT LOAN DEBT STRESS

The following article by Chris Studer , Chief Executive Officer of ScholarPoint Financial, Inc. is courtesy of Higher Education Washington, Inc. http://www.hewi.net/ Financial Aid Advice  7/26/07 AVOIDING STUDENT LOAN DEBT STRESS Recent graduates are Read More...

Calling all Procrastinators…

There is still time for procrastinators to consolidate their student loans before the clock strikes twelve on June 30, 2007. That’s when interest rates on existing, variable-rate federal student loans will jump 0.08 percent raising the rates from 6.54 Read More...