How to Save Money On Your Student Loan Repayment
2016
Taking On College Loan Repayment As a Couple
When you’re young and decide to take out those student loans you’re probably not thinking too much about how you’re going to repay them. You might be thinking a little about the future but you figure it’s going to be a while before those loans come due and then you’ll worry about it right? Well I know I was. I was really trying not to think about the time when those loans would be due and I would need to give that money back. Even though I didn’t borrow much I still knew I didn’t really want an extra bill every month (which is the same thing a lot of students think. You can read more about it here.) […]
Student Loan News – May 02, 2014
Here are the best articles from around the web this week talking about student loans… For the week ending Friday May 02, 2014 Student Loan News: 1. Student Loan Interest Rates to Rise With 10-Year Treasury Note: College students in the U.S. who take out federal loans are likely to see interest rates jump — potentially by a percentage point or more — in the coming academic year. Last year, the government began to peg rates on most student loans to the Treasury 10-year note. Stafford loans, the most widely borrowed, carried an undergraduate rate of 3.86 percent for the 2013-2014 school year. In the past three months, the 10-year yield has traded 0.80 to 1 percentage point higher than a year ago, which means education borrowing costs may rise. […]
Student Loan News – April 25, 2014
Here are the best articles from around the web this week talking about student loans… For the week ending Friday April 26, 2014 Student Loan News: 1. Student Loans Can Suddenly Come Due When Co-Signers Die, a Report Finds: For students who borrow on the private market to pay for school, the death of a parent [...]
Student Loan News – March 21, 2014
Here are the best articles from around the web this week talking about student loans… For the week ending Friday March 21, 2014 Student Loan News: 1. Students should question the risk, terms of dangerous private loans: College is an exceptional time in our lives when we can partake in activities that society otherwise frowns upon, such as drinking Keystone beer and playing hacky sack in public. One potentially ruinous side effect of pursuing a higher education, though, is taking out the loans to pay for it. […]
Student Loan News – March 14, 2014
Here are the best articles from around the web this week talking about student loans… For the week ending Friday March 14, 2014 Student Loan News: 1. Student Loan Borrowers Win As Education Department Reverses Course: Borrowers with federal student loans may now access the U.S. government's latest rankings of loan specialists after the Department of Education on Tuesday abruptly reversed its temporary ban on providing customer service scores. […]
Student Loan News – February 07, 2014
Here are the best articles from around the web this week talking about student loans… For the week ending Friday February 07, 2014 Student Loan News: 1. Student loan refinancing bill draws packed hearing, questions about its effectiveness: A Democratic bill to help ease the budget crunch for three-quarters of a million student loan borrowers drew a packed house at a Wednesday legislative hearing, with a doctor and aspiring lawyer speaking in favor and some industry professionals saying the bill needs changes to reach its intended goals. […]
Income-Contingent Student Loan Repayment Plan
If you cannot afford the more standardized repayment plans but are not eligible for the income-based plan or pay as you earn plan, you might consider the income-contingent plan for repaying your student loans. This program is available for several types of federal student loans, including: Subsidized and Unsubsidized Direct Loans Direct PLUS Loans for graduate or professional students Direct Consolidation Loans (except Direct PLUS Consolidation Loans) […]
Five student loan repayment programs
You can get help if you are worried about paying back the student loans that are mounting with interest and keep growing every time you look at the bills that come in. You make payments, but it doesn’t seem to make much difference. Here are just a few ways focused on careers you may have chosen that can help. If your career doesn’t appear here, investigate further. You may find something that will help you in your particular field as a student loan repayment program: […]