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Post-July 1, Borrowers Consolidate Student Loans at Rates as Low as 3.62% (Marketwire via Yahoo! Finance)

Thursday, August 7th, 2008


Borrowers will now be able to consolidate their variable-rate federal student loans at significantly lower fixed interest rates, thanks to the Fed’s flurry of rate cuts over the last year.

Credit unions: Safe as a banks (CNN Money)
Gerri Willis answers reader’s questions.

Student Loans, Then Loan Forgiveness
If you are planning to take out one or more student loans to pay for your college education, you may find the thought of carrying thousands of dollars of debt post graduation as an uncomfortable decision. After all, you want to get the education you need to get into the career you want, but paying off loans for many years thereafter can have an unsettling effect on your psyche. But there are some things to keep in mind when borrowing money to pay for school: Come graduation, you still have so

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Key Things To Consider Before Taking a Student Loan

Thursday, August 7th, 2008


by Sarah Parker If you are a student needing financial aid, one of the financial aids available to you is a student loan. In very simple terms, a student loan is a loan you take out and use to pay the costs of your college tuition. Compared to other types of loans, a student loan has a lower interest rates. While students loans can be privately sponsored, most student loans are government sponsored. A Direct Student Loan is a loan with a schedule of repayment six to nine months after the stude

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Ease the burden of student loans by consolidating (Seattle Times)

Wednesday, August 6th, 2008


Student loans are an invaluable method for helping cover the cost of a higher education. But they can also pose a burden after college graduation…

NextStudent to Be Featured at CollegeWeekLive on July 10 (Marketwire via Yahoo! Finance)
CollegeWeekLive, www.collegeweeklive.com, the largest virtual college fair on the Web, will host its free online “Paying for College” event on July 10, and NextStudent, a sponsor of the event, will have professional Education Finance Advisors on-hand to chat live with students and parents and help them with their questions about financial aid, federal college loans, parent loans, and private …

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New Government Program Pays Off Student Loans for Borrowers Who Enter Public Service (Marketwire via Yahoo! Finance)

Wednesday, August 6th, 2008


Student loan borrowers who commit to a decade of public service may see the remaining balance on their federal student loans forgiven under the government’s new public-service loan forgiveness program.

Education Benefits Double to $90,000 Under New GI Bill That Goes Into Effect Today (Marketwire via Yahoo! Finance)
The new Post-9/11 GI Bill, which President Bush signed into law last month, goes into effect today, more than doubling veterans’ educational benefits to $90,000 from about $40,000.

Chapter 11 doesn’t discourage Creditron (Erie Times-News)
Creditron Financial Corp., a 23-year-old Erie company with more than 400 employees, is reorganizing its finances under Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection.

Credit unions: Safe as a banks (CNN Money)
Gerri Willis answers reader’s questions.

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Doug Slain: ‘We’re losing teacher-student bonding in the name of fighting sexual abuse’

Wednesday, August 6th, 2008


Recently criminal defense attorney Douglas R. Slain (pictured) had an interesting post about teachers and accusations of sex abuse. In Hot For Teacher No More, Slain writes: An AP report Friday showed that ten states have taken action in the past few months to crack down on sexually abusive teachers in our nation’s schools. This comes on the heels of a previous AP study that found 2570 educators had lost their teaching credentials or otherwise been sanctioned from 2001-05 because of sexual al

Student Loans
by Sarah Parker This article discusses everything that you should know about student loans. If you don t want to hire a student loan counselor then you should read this article! A Direct Student Loan is a loan with a schedule of repayment six to nine months after the student has completed school. The Direct Student Loan is distributed through the school the student is attending, which enables the interest rates to be much lower than a Guaranteed Student Loan. The other thing you need to consi

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Ease the burden of student loans by consolidating (Seattle Times)

Wednesday, August 6th, 2008


Student loans are an invaluable method for helping cover the cost of a higher education. But they can also pose a burden after college graduation…

Post-July 1, Borrowers Consolidate Student Loans at Rates as Low as 3.62% (Marketwire via Yahoo! Finance)
Borrowers will now be able to consolidate their variable-rate federal student loans at significantly lower fixed interest rates, thanks to the Fed’s flurry of rate cuts over the last year.

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The Inside Story - Financial Aid Podcast Newsletter for August 2008

Wednesday, August 6th, 2008


I m trying a new experiment this month with the Financial Aid Podcast newsletter - instead of being traditional HTML or text, I thought I d load up Pages on my MacBook and give it a whirl as a PDF. Please leave comments here with your feedback! Direct file download: PDF file Did you enjoy today s show? If so, please consider subscribing for free to get it delivered to you. Subscribing for free means you don t have to remember to download it every day. + + + Reminders + + Financial A

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Student Loans
by Sarah Parker This article discusses everything that you should know about student loans. If you don t want to hire a student loan counselor then you should read this article! A Direct Student Loan is a loan with a schedule of repayment six to nine months after the student has completed school. The Direct Student Loan is distributed through the school the student is attending, which enables the interest rates to be much lower than a Guaranteed Student Loan. The other thing you need to consi

FAP850: MEFA Massachusetts Student Loan Interview on WGBH Video
FAP850: MEFA Massachusetts Student Loan Interview on WGBH Video I thought I d publish the actual video from the WGBH interview about MEFA the other day as a download, as opposed to making you watch it only on the web site. The video runs about 8 minutes long, and my thanks go to the staff of WGBH for a great interview and a great studio experience. Direct video file download: MP4 file Did you enjoy today s show? If so, please consider subscribing for free to get it delivered to you. Subscrib

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Pilfering Dreams, Stop Foreclosure With These Proven

Wednesday, August 6th, 2008


The important thing to remember in student loan consolidation is that it has significant that cannot easily be explained, dare I say, in logical terms. It might be thought, therefore, that here was the ideal place to talk. When the going gets very rough or too easy, those who are pursuing the greater good may feel a stronger compulsion to keep on pushing. Posting on July 25th, 2008 in Education by admin By: Daniel Millions There are basically two places where you want actively to look for stud

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Federal Student Loan - For Debt Consolidation

Wednesday, August 6th, 2008


Topics: debt help, debt reduction, lower interest rates, consolidate loan, consolidate debt Higher education costs have almost skyrocketed in last few decades. So education requirements are often more than one loan. Students are sometimes employed but receive very low salaries at entry level and they are left with staggering debt burdens. Even though they possess considerable talent they are unable to pursue higher educational needs because of their financial situations at home. If they desi

Ease the burden of student loans by consolidating - Seattle Times
American Education Services www.aessuccess.org/manage/consolidate/faq.shtml - Uses question-and-answer format to provides information about student-loan consolidation.

Student Loans, Then Loan Forgiveness
If you are planning to take out one or more student loans to pay for your college education, you may find the thought of carrying thousands of dollars of debt post graduation as an uncomfortable decision. After all, you want to get the education you need to get into the career you want, but paying off loans for many years thereafter can have an unsettling effect on your psyche. But there are some things to keep in mind when borrowing money to pay for school: Come graduation, you still have so

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Ease the burden of student loans by consolidating - Seattle Times

Wednesday, August 6th, 2008


American Education Services www.aessuccess.org/manage/consolidate/faq.shtml - Uses question-and-answer format to provides information about student-loan consolidation.

NextStudent to Be Featured at CollegeWeekLive on July 10 (Marketwire via Yahoo! Finance)
CollegeWeekLive, www.collegeweeklive.com, the largest virtual college fair on the Web, will host its free online “Paying for College” event on July 10, and NextStudent, a sponsor of the event, will have professional Education Finance Advisors on-hand to chat live with students and parents and help them with their questions about financial aid, federal college loans, parent loans, and private …

Student Loan/Consolidation Network Announces Good News from Congress (PRWeb via Yahoo! News)
StudentLoanCenter.biz, an online source of information and assistance for the student loan market, has good news for current and future students in need of financial help.

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