Federal student loan consolidation allows you to combine one or more existing student loans into one single consolidation loan with a new repayment schedule. You will have lower monthly payments, but you will pay much higher interest over the life of the loan because you will be making smaller payments over a longer time. When … Continue reading “Making smaller payments over a longer time”
Cash-out refinancing can help homeowners who want to consolidate high-interest, nondeductible debt. Because your mortgage interest rate is likely to be lower than rates on credit cards or other types of bank loans, consolidating debt may reduce your overall monthly debt payments. In addition, your mortgage interest may be tax-deductible, while your credit card interest … Continue reading “Consolidating debt may reduce your overall monthly payments”
Payment relief is one of great benefits of consolidating federal school loans. By combining all of student debts into one consolidated debt, you can lengthen your repayment term from the standard ten years to up to thirty years, depending on the amount of your education debt. So, if you’re having trouble meeting your student payments, … Continue reading “You can lengthen your repayment term”
Before you start to consolidate your debts, you need to make sure that you truly understand the financial impact of loan consolidation. There are numerous companies offering various types of loan, and even overall debt consolidation as the one size fits all fix to every debtor’s worries. Student loan consolidation is being offered as the … Continue reading “Make sure that you understand the financial impact”
The main and primary financial benefit of loan consolidation is simplified your payments. Rather than five, ten, or more payments every month, you have only one or two payments to make. Your options depend on many factors, including: whether your loans are federal or private (and you may have both), how much you earn, what … Continue reading “Accelerate your payments as your income grows”