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How does Sallie Mae calculate its payment?
Short Version
Can anyone figure out how Sallie Mae comes up with its personal loan payment amount?
Long Version
I have a friend who took out a personal loan with Sallie Mae, and their payment ...
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What is nelnet doing with my auto-debit student loan payments?
I recently (A few months ago) bumped up my loan repayment. My repayment just started this year.
So, I took a look at how nelnet is allocating my auto debit, and my payment history looks like this:
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Is there any loan forgiveness or help for a large Federal parent student loan?
If a parent has a federal student loan for her child's education of over 100 thousand dollars, and she is having trouble paying off, is there any sort of forgiveness, or help?
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Student loan repayment question (UK)
I have significant student loan debt.
I am on plan 2 repayment and just received my first payslip.
I earn £22k and so by their rules I need to pay back 9% of my annual salary over £21k that being in ...
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Are there any regulations regards end of loan payment procedures?
When I was a student, one of my student loans was a Federal Perkins Loan. I was done paying the loan fully about 5 months ago. Since then I called couple times to the university asking about it, and ...
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Student Loans: Income-based repayment & income tax bomb
Situation: I have a pretty sizable student loan burden ($150,000 with 6% interest), where I can't afford the regular payments (about $2000/month) with my current salary ($60,000) at job I'm starting ...
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Paying off loan early: Apply overpayment toward balance vs advance payment due date?
I want to pay off half of my high interest student loan with a lump sum.
I have 2 options when applying the payment: to apply the amount to my balance or to advance the due date (i.e. to apply ...
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Tackling an obscene amount of student loans
So, in my journey to get to where I am today, I spent a good 7 years getting a Master's degree. This, of course, led me down the path of student loans.
Currently I sit at just over 100k in student ...
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When should I reduce my student loan payments in order to save up for a down payment on another loan?
I'm currently paying off a little over $13,500 of student loans, at a rate of $300 a month and accrues approximately $60 of interest each month. My bi-weekly take-home salary is approximately $1,350 (...
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Paying off student loans early/lump sum -- best practices?
My wife & I have run into a large sum of cash recently and are interested in paying off/paying down our student loans -- about $30k between us, at about 6.5% avg interest.
We're both earning ...
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