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How to Lower Your Sallie Mae Student Loan Interest Rate

If you’re trying to lower your Sallie Mae student loan interest rate, you’re not alone. One reader of AskTheMoneyCoach.com shared their frustration about consolidating loans with Sallie Mae back in 2001 at a fixed 7% interest rate. While payments have been consistently made for over a decade, Sallie Mae offered no solutions when asked about […]

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Should You Transfer Your Sallie Mae Student Loans?

When you say “Direct Loan,” I believe you are referring to the U.S. Department of Education’s Direct Loan Program (http://www.dl.ed.gov), where you can transfer and consolidate your federal education loans into a single, new loan which offers lower monthly payments. Whether or not it makes economic sense to transfer the loans depends on a host of factors, including: how manageable (or unmanageable) your monthly payments are; how many payments are left on your existing loan; the amount of time and interest you are willing to pay over time; and the interest rates on your current loans.

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