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Federal Student Loans and Consolidation

Saturday, Apr 14, 2007

Question: If I make my federal student loans on time will it improve my credit score?

Answer: Making payments on any trade line will help your credit rating - and paying your student loans on time will certainly help. You should also investigate the opportunity to consolidate your student loans to lower your monthly payments and extend the duration of your student loans, which could free up monthly cash flow to pay off other debts as well.

If you want to learn more about Student Loans click here: Student Loan Information

With respect to your credit score, I'd like to share with you a few of factors that figure into credit scoring that you should take into consideration when developing a build your credit score, such as your debt load and your payment history. Having too much debt in relation to your total available credit is bad for your credit score, but making payments on time is great.

Try to cut your expenses and apply any extra cash to make increase the monthly payment to your highest interest accounts (student loan
or other), while continuing to make the minimums on the others. Once you have paid off the highest interest card, move on to the next highest interest card. This strategy will reduce your debt to available credit, and should have a positive influence on your credit score. It will also help you reestablish positive payment history, another important influence on your credit score. Since your debt to available credit ratio is high, it was probably your good payment history that was propping up your score. So when you missed payments and damaged your positive payment history, your score dropped precipitously.
Once you have paid down your accounts and have started to reestablish your positive payments history, you should start to see your credit score rebound. Read more about credit, credit scoring, and ways to improve your credit at http://www.bills.com/credit/


Also, although you asked about credit score improvement, if you want to get a free consultation on how to get out of your debts for the lowest cost and in the shortest amount of time, Bills.com makes it easy for you to apply for qualified providers of debt help, by following this link:
https://www.bills.com/debthelp/debt/

I hope this information helps you Find. Learn. Save.

Bill
www.bills.com

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