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Student loans you take out for college will affect you as you look for credit and loans in the future. Your credit score is positively affected by the on-time student loan payments you make, and negatively affected when you miss or make late payments. Lenders will use your credit score to help assist them in determining whether or not to approve you for a loan.

What is a Credit Score?

FICO® score or VantageScore® are two leading companies for reporting your credit score. Both have scores ranging from 300 which is considered poor, to 850 which is considered excellent. Your score is a combination of different factors that work together to define your ability to assume new debt.

Your overall credit score is made up from your payment history, credit utilization (or the amount you owe on your revolving credit divided by your total available revolving credit), the age of your credit history, credit mix, and recent hard credit inquiries. When it comes to credit utilization, you generally want to keep this under 30%. Your credit score reports on your financial history, ranging from credit cards to student loans, car loans, mortgages & more and analyzes how well or poorly you paid back money lent to you.

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How do Student Loans Affect Your Credit?

If you have a credit card, adding in a student loan will help build your credit mix, a smaller contributing part of your overall credit score. Continually paying regular, on-time payments will help you build credit, as the largest part of your credit score comes from making payments on time. 

Both federal and private student loans are classified as installment loans. An installment loan is a loan for a fixed amount of money (along with interest) for a set period of time.  As a borrower you agree to make payments until the loan is paid off. Being a responsible borrower and paying your monthly payment in full over time shows lenders that you can successfully manage multiple loans and lines of credit. If you were to make late loan payments, it could reduce your credit score and stay on your credit report for seven years. 

Your student loans can also impact your debt-to-income and your debt-to-credit ratios. Your debt-to-income is your monthly debt payments divided by your gross monthly income. The debt-to-credit ratio is the amount of credit used compared to the amount of credit you have available. Lenders are looking for lower ratios when evaluating your creditworthiness. While your debt-to-income ratio may not affect your credit score like your credit utilization will, a high debt-to-income ratio may prevent approval of additional debt. 

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Importance of Monthly Payments

Late or Skipped Payments

Late payments on student loans can negatively affect your credit score. Student loans can be considered delinquent the day after a missed payment.  Private student lenders typically will report a missed payment as being delinquent after 30 days. Federal student loans are usually reported as delinquent after 90 days. Late payments will stay on your credit report for up to seven years impacting your access to additional credit. 

If you do not submit payments for a certain amount of time (federal student loans are usually 270 days, Federal Perkins loans are one missed payment, and private student loans are typically 120 days), your loan will enter default. When your loan enters default, the entirety of your loan balance could become due immediately, you may lose the ability to use deferment or forbearance, and federal student loans may no longer be an option until you resolve the defaulted loan. Your tax refunds, federal benefit payments, and wages may be withheld and garnished to pay down your loan.  Contact your loan servicer for more information to assist you if you feel you cannot make a payment or will need to pay it late. There are a lot of options to help you keep your federal student loans out of default, like options of forbearance, deferment, and repayment plans. 

Minimum Monthly Payments

Ideally, your monthly payment plan is manageable and allows you to continually provide for yourself and your dependents. While making more than your minimum payment (and applying those funds to the principal) can help you pay off your student loans more quickly, there may come a time where making the minimum monthly payment becomes a struggle. 

To prevent a late payment, or missing a payment entirely, you should look at your repayment plan to see what your options are and talk with your loan servicer to determine the best course of action. If you have a federal student loan, you can change your repayment plan at any time. There are a number of different repayment plans that can help you keep your loan current and prevent it from defaulting. You can also contact your lender to see if you qualify for a forbearance or deferment, to postpone your loan payments to allow you some time to catch up on your finances. 

Consecutive On-Time Payments

Making regular payments on time can help you build a positive credit history. As you make payments on time and your student loan ages, the average age of your credit also increases. This can provide your credit with a positive boost. 

Many loan servicers give you the option for autopay to help you continually make your minimum monthly payment on time. There may be a .25% to a .50% decrease in your interest rate if you enroll in auto pay, thus doing so may lower the overall cost of your loan!

As you work to develop a good credit history and credit score by making consecutive on time payments, it will help your financial future and possibly make lower interest rates available to you as you show your financial responsibility and creditworthiness to lenders. 

Avoiding Student Loan Default

If you don’t think you’ll be able to make your payment, call your loan servicer to discuss possible options. Your lender may be able to lower or pause the monthly payments for your student loan. Loan servicers are often willing to work with borrowers to ensure payment is made, but communication is key. 

If you are at-risk of defaulting on your federal student loan, you may notice an increase in contacts from your loan servicer. Do not ignore them! They may be able to help you avoid default. If you loan happens to go into default, depending on the type of federal student loan, the government guaranty or backing of those funds, will kick into effect. If you have a FFEL loan, your lender will submit a claim with their guaranty agency and your loan may be transferred for further collection. They will try to collect on your account and return it to good standing, however, if they are unable, eventually your loan will be transferred to the U.S. Department of Education’s default management group. If you have a Direct Loan, your loan will move to a default student loan servicer, like Maximus, for further collection and default management of your loan. All the months you were in delinquency and the default will be reported to the credit bureaus. 

If you have a private student loan, it is not insured by the federal government. If you default on a private student loan, your lender will transfer your account to a collection agency. The delinquencies and default will be reported the credit bureaus. 

Before defaulting on your student loan, talk to your lender as soon as possible, and ideally before your payment becomes past due. Loan companies may have more options to hep you before you default, because once you default you tend to become ineligible for a lot of those flexible repayment options for even your federal student loans. 

Options to Prevent Default:

•Income-Driven Repayment Plans for Federal Loan Borrowers

If you have a federal student loan, an income-driven repayment plan is designed to make the debt from your student loan more manageable by setting your payment based on your income, household size, and state of residence. This is a unique repayment plan option because other types of debt only base your payment on your repayment term, outstanding debt, and your interest rate. Chances are with an income-drive repayment plan, your monthly payment plan may be less than what you have been paying. With that being said, you may end up paying more interest than with a Standard Repayment plan, and the life of your loan may be extended up to a 20- or 25-year term. The longer you spend in repayment, the more you will typically pay in total. But these trade-offs may be worth it to preserve your credit status.  

•Deferment or Forbearance

You can ask that your loan be placed in forbearance or deferment.  If granted there will be a temporary postponement of payments. This postponement is not permanent, interest will continue to accrue, and unpaid interest will capitalize once you reenter repayment of the loan.  

o Deferment is when your obligation to repay the student loan is temporarily suspended. Subsidized federal student loans, such as the Perkins Loan and the Direct Subsidized Loan, the federal government will pay the interest during a deferment. There are very specific reasons why you could qualify for a deferment, like Economic Hardship and Unemployment. There are also time limits on how many months you can use a deferment, it’s typically three years.  Talk with your student loan servicer for more information of your deferment options and eligibility. 

o Forbearance is when you are asking for a temporary suspension of payment, or a reduced-payment forbearance option. Servicers may offer a forbearance option if you don’t qualify for a deferment option. Forbearance is intended to help borrowers avoid default when they are willing but unable to repay their loan due to poor health, financial hardship, or other eligible reason. 

Refinance your Student Loans

One way to change the terms of your student loan is to refinance the loan. You can refinance federal and private student loans. However, a private student loan refinance will require you to qualify for the loan with a private lender—which essentially means a credit check. If you are struggling to repay your debt and your credit has been negatively impacted, you may not be eligible to refinance without a cosigner. Generally, private student loan refinance lenders will look for a credit score of at least 660, two years of work history, and they will review your debt-to-income ratio. If you can qualify, student loans can be refinanced to potentially access lower interest rates or change repayment terms should your student loan become too much of burden to pay. 

If you are a federal student loan borrower, you may not want to lose the benefits provided with federal student loans. This may lead you to consider a federal Direct Consolidation Loan, thus merging all your federal student loans into one. If you consolidate your federal student loans with a Direct Consolidation Loan, you may be able to lower your payment and extend your repayment term to up to 30 years, depending on the amount of existing student loan debt you have.  While this may ease your present debt burden, it could end up costing more overall. 

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1The 0.25% auto-pay interest rate reduction applies as long as the borrower or cosigner, if applicable, enrolls in auto-pay and authorizes our loan servicer to automatically deduct your monthly payments from a valid bank account via Automated Clearing House (“ACH”). The rate reduction applies for as long as the monthly payment amount is successfully deducted from the designated bank account and is suspended during periods of forbearance and certain deferments. Variable rates may increase after consummation.

2This informational repayment example uses typical loan terms for a refi borrower who selects the Full Principal & Interest Repayment Option with a 10-year repayment term, has a $40,000 loan and a 5.5% Annual Percentage Rate (“APR”): 120 monthly payments of $434.11 while in the repayment period, for a total amount of payments of $52,092.61. Loans will never have a full principal and interest monthly payment of less than $50. Your actual rates and repayment terms may vary.

3$5,000 is the minimum requirement to refinance. The maximum loan amount is $250,000 for those with medical, dental, pharmacy or veterinary doctorate degrees, and $150,000 for all other undergraduate or graduate degrees.

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1Average savings calculations are based on information provided by SouthEast Bank/ Education Loan Finance customers who refinanced their student loans between 8/16/2016 and 10/25/2018. While these amounts represent reported average amounts saved, actual amounts saved will vary depending upon a number of factors.

2Rates accurate as of 1/01/23. The interest rate and monthly payment for variable rate loans may increase after closing. Your actual interest rate may be different from the rates shown above and will be based on the term of your loan, your financial history, and other factors, including your cosigner’s (if any) financial history. For example, a 10 year loan with a fixed rate of 6% would have 120 payments of $11.00 per $1,000 borrowed. To qualify for refinancing or student loan consolidation through Education Loan Finance, you must have at least $10,000 in qualified student loan debt and must have earned a bachelor’s degree or higher from an approved post-secondary Education Loan Finance institution. Education Loan Finance Parent Loans are limited to a maximum of the 10-year term.

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1Fixed rates range from 4.49% APR to 8.99% APR with a 0.25% autopay discount. Variable rates from 5.09% APR to 8.99% APR with a 0.25% autopay discount. Unless required to be lower to comply with applicable law, Variable Interest rates on 5-, 7-, and 10-year terms are capped at 8.95% APR; 15- and 20-year terms are capped at 9.95% APR. Your actual rate will be within the range of rates listed above and will depend on the term you select, evaluation of your creditworthiness, income, presence of a co-signer and a variety of other factors. Lowest rates reserved for the most creditworthy borrowers. For the SoFi variable-rate product, the variable interest rate for a given month is derived by adding a margin to the 30-day average SOFR index, published two business days preceding such calendar month, rounded up to the nearest one hundredth of one percent (0.01% or 0.0001). APRs for variable-rate loans may increase after origination if the SOFR index increases. The SoFi 0.25% autopay interest rate reduction requires you to agree to make monthly principal and interest payments by an automatic monthly deduction from a savings or checking account. This benefit will discontinue and be lost for periods in which you do not pay by automatic deduction from a savings or checking account. The benefit lowers your interest rate but does not change the amount of your monthly payment. This benefit is suspended during periods of deferment and forbearance. Autopay is not required to receive a loan from SoFi.

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1The rates displayed may include a 0.25% autopay discount.

2To check the rates and terms you qualify for, Splash Financial conducts a soft credit pull that will not affect your credit score. However, if you choose a product and continue your application, the lender will request your full credit report from one or more consumer reporting agencies, which is considered a hard credit pull and may affect your credit.

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To qualify, you must be a U.S. citizen or possess a 10-year (non-conditional) Permanent Resident Card, reside in a state Earnest lends in, and satisfy our minimum eligibility criteria. You may find more information on loan eligibility here: https://www.earnest.com/eligibility. Not all applicants will be approved for a loan, and not all applicants qualify for the lowest rate. Approval and interest rate depend on the review of a complete application.

Actual rate and available repayment terms will vary based on your income. Fixed rates range from 4.64% APR to 9.24% APR (excludes 0.25% Auto Pay discount). Variable rates range from 4.64% APR to 9.19% APR (excludes 0.25% Auto Pay discount). Earnest variable interest rate student loan refinance loans are based on a publicly available index, the 30-day Average Secured Overnight Financing Rate (SOFR) published by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. The variable rate is based on the rate published on the 25th day, or the next business day, of the preceding calendar month, rounded to the nearest hundredth of a percent. The rate will not increase more than once per month. The maximum rate for your loan is 8.95% if your loan term is 10 years or less. For loan terms of more than 10 years to 15 years, the interest rate will never exceed 9.95%. For loan terms over 15 years, the interest rate will never exceed 11.95%. Please note, we are not able to offer variable rate loans in AK, IL, MN, NH, OH, TN, and TX. Our lowest rates are only available for our most credit qualified borrowers and contain our .25% auto pay discount from a checking or savings account.

*Auto Pay Discount: If you make monthly principal and interest payments by an automatic, monthly deduction from a savings or checking account, your rate will be reduced by one quarter of one percent (0.25%) for so long as you continue to make automatic, electronic monthly payments. This benefit is suspended during periods of deferment and forbearance. Not all borrowers will qualify for our lowest rates, and your rate will be based on creditworthiness at time of application.

The information provided on this page is updated as of 02/01/2023. Earnest reserves the right to change, pause, or terminate product offerings at any time without notice.

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Edvisors provides expert advice on planning and paying for college. On Edvisors.com easily compare student loan lenders, learn how to apply for financial aid, and discover scholarships. Learn about federal and private student loans for students and parents, how and when to apply to college, and more!

Edvisors (“Edvisors Network, Inc.”) provides independent advertising-supported platforms for consumers to search compare and apply for private student loans. Loan offers from participating lenders that appear on our websites are not affiliated with any college and/or universities, and there are no colleges and/or universities which endorse Edvisors’ products or services. Lender search results do not constitute an official college preferred lender list. Edvisors receives compensation from lenders that appear on this site. This compensation may impact the placement of where lenders appear on this site, for example, the order in which the lenders appear when included in a list. Not all lenders participate in our sites and lenders that do participate may not offer loans to every school.

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