Federal Student Aid: I’m Going: Eric
Many young people have the desire to go through college and pursue the courses that will lead them to their dream careers. Unfortunately, many of them do not have the resources to do so. However, they may go out and acquire student fees loans which they later repay after securing employment.
Many students find that by the time they are through with college, they have already applied or have been granted more than two loans. It can sometimes become overwhelming to pay up for them. When this happens, one may want to consider merging the college loan. This means that you will merge all of the debts into one and service them as such.
Consolidation of college loans has its own advantages. First, you will reduce on the amount of interest you pay for each loan, you will avoid dealing with multiple lenders and concentrate on only one and more important, the length of time and the monthly payment amount will reduce considerably.
Consolidation in this case becomes a more realizable option as it gives the ex-student peace of mind from the harassment by lenders, as they try to recoup what is theirs form you. One can consider which option to settle for the process; either the federal type of consolidation or the private one. It all depends on the type of loan you had applied for. If you were financed by the government, you go for the first option while if you were funded by a private organization you will settle for the second type.
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Are there any banks or agencies still doing student loan consolidation?I'm a recent college graduate, and it seems that all of the banks which used to offer consolidation services are no longer. Do you know of any banks or loan agencies that are still consolidating?
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Before any college loan consolidation you need to understand how things work try this site for starters.
http://www.loans.tohelpyou.info/refinance/Refinancing.html
http://www.SSSC.com
I know a few people who consolidated their loans through them and they offered them great rates.
You may also want to try http://www.acs-education.com
The good news is that almost anyone can consolidate their student loans, even with bad credit. The federal government sponsors a program through the department of education that allows anyone to consolidate their federally backed student loans (most typically, they are Stafford Student Loans but could also be PLUS Loans or Perkins Loans) and approval is not credit based by traditional underwriting standards — the key is that you cannot be behind or have missed payments. You also must have graduated and you can only consolidate student loans once (typically) in the term of the loans. The exception to this last rule is that if you take on news loans, then you can consolidate again.
The benefit of consolidating your student loans is that you can lock in a low fixed rate while at the same time extending the duration of the pay-back on the student loans to 30 years… which could cut your monthly payment in half.
If you want to compare rates and terms to consolidate your student loans, you can get matched with several of Bills.com's pre-screened lenders, by applying here: https://www.bills.com/studentloan/loan/
To learn more about student loans, I encourage your to visit the Bills.com Student Loans Information page at http://www.bills.com/student-loans
Requirements: As I recall, you must have more than $10,000 in outstanding loans. You must not be in default.
Best lenders: I chose to use the federal government who held most of my loans. You can check nslds.ed.gov for more information.
Hi tludwig.,
The first thing is you need to make sure that you are not in default on any of them, because the Army won't repay any that are in default.
Also make sure that you meet all the requirements. I put a link that describes them below.
Once you're all set there, go to http://loanconsolidation.ed.gov/borrower/borrower.shtml . You can apply right there at the Federal Direct Consolidation Loan site.
Good luck,
Ken
If you fit into the criteria, then you should move ahead to the next step, which is talking to the consolidation company and asking them to contact your creditors to reduce your monthly payments and interest rates. Just as with any other loan, student loan repayment affects your future prospects of loan-taking.
If student loan debt goes beyond eighty-five percent of your total income, it is seen as a negative score in your future credit assessment.
Consolidating students loans do not make a difference to the credit expect if you fail to repay them (as you did). I have consolidated and it has worked out fine. I started with a low interest rate and because I paid on time for 36 months continuously my interest rate was dropped an additional 1%. If you can't make all the payments, consolidation is the best way to go and make your life easier. Good luck.
Sallie Mae consolidates.
I am in the same boat. No one is consolidating right now because of the credit crisis. If you find someone who will do it please let me know, these $700 a month payments are killing me!