This effectively means that federal loans are bought out, but the repayments are over a longer period of time (perhaps 30 years) and at a fixed interest rate to ensure the process of
clearing college debts involves the lowest possible monthly repayments - in some cases 50 % lower than initial terms.
For those who are still deep in their studies, even thinking of
clearing college debts can be a major distraction.
Usually the process of
clearing college debts begins after graduation.
So,
clearing college debts in this way translates to heightened financial pressure.
Not exact matches
It's
clear that rising tertiary education costs paid by consumers — and heavy
debt burdens on many who enter and persist in
college — are part of the problem.
The $ 5,000 raised by refinancing the bad credit auto loan in our example can be used to
clear the credit card
debts, or pay an unexpected hospital bill, or used to pay
college fees.
We have always been «careful», saved hard, put our kids through school and
college debt free,
cleared our mortgage early etc... However, over the last couple of years we have shifted a significant amount of money to our kids.
This is a highly effective way of managing
college debt but bear in mind that the
debt can be extended to 30 years, meaning the student loans take a lot longer to
clear.
This effectively reduces the monthly repayment obligations, and repaying
college debt by
clearing the original loans leads to improve credit scores too.
Research is pretty
clear on this: even people who go to
college and end up with thousands of dollars of student
debt are better off — financially and in other ways — than their peers who didn't go to
college at all.
If the purpose is to
clear existing
debts, pay
college fees or make home improvements, then the lender is much more willing to take a positive view of the application.
The principal benefits of
college loan consolidation is that the initial loan
debt is
cleared and the terms of the new loan are much better.
To get a
clear picture of what the
colleges are facing, they will have to relieve the students of their student loan
debt.