The main purpose of a direct consolidation loan is to combine or consolidate the borrower’s various federal student loans into one loan. Among the benefits of a consolidation loan is the convenience of making one monthly payment instead of many monthly payments. This allows the student to keep track of the payments and prevents a student of forgetting to pay one of the loans. Also the consolidation of student loans has the benefit of lowering your monthly repayment amount. However please keep in mind that if you decide to increase the term of the consolidation of loans, even though your monthly repayment is lower, you will end up making more payments which combined with the interest charges, the loan will ending up costing you more in the end. Another thing to keep in mind if you are thinking of consolidating student loans is that you may lose some borrower benefits (ie discounted interest rates and loan cancellation benefits) which you had for your original student loans. Once your student debt consolidation is in effect, you cannot later decide to go back to your previous individual student loans as they have been extinguished. Accordingly, you need to think about the pros & cons of consolidating your student loans before you decide to complete the application form.
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