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Whether you’re currently looking for a student loan, needing to refinance one or indeed pay off a student loan - everyone is always grateful for some unbiased and independent advice regarding what to do. Whilst attending college or university will, in the long run, pay for itself in higher salaries and benefits than many people without higher education qualifications - the debt you can accrue getting there can some overwhelming.

Paying off student loan debt - don’t panic!

The very last thing you’ll probably want to do from your first pay check is to start reducing your student debt - but that is the very first piece of advice. Of course it’s tempting to go out and blow that first check on a new wardrobe or that latest gadget you’ve been aching to get. However, the truth is that the longer you leave it to start paying off your student loan debt - the more the interest will rise, and the more you’ll owe on it. That doesn’t mean you have to wear a hair shirt until it’s all paid off. Just set up a regular standing order to pay off some of the debt monthly, increasing this amount as and when your salary increases.

Too much debt to cope with?

You don't have to go into modelling to clear your student debts.

 If you feel you have too much student debt to cope with, then talk to the student loan companies you’ve dealt with. If this is a single student loan company they should be able to easily arrange for a student debt consolidation loan to be organized. This will pull together all of the small loan debt into one new loan. The advantage of this is that you then have only one payment to make each month, rather than having to make sure you always pay off several loans. If your student loans are with several companies this can make the repayments a nightmare, remembering which company needs paying what amount and on which date etc. Ask the various companies what consolidation loan they could arrange for you - and then simply select the one that is most advantageous to you.

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