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Student debt help

Submitted by Paolo on Fri, 2006-08-11 09:36.

The UK student debt help market is thriving and for good reason. Tuition fees and an increased cost of living added to an already tight budget mean many students need to seek professional help in order to repair their debt.

 

The first and best piece of advice you can get for student debt, like any other kind of debt, is to stop spending. Only buy the things you absolutely have to have and don’t let your peers persuade you otherwise.

When it comes to deciding what kind of debt help is best, you need to consider how much debt you actually have. Remember, there isn’t a one size fits all debt help solution, so it’s imperative you find one that’s suited to your specific needs.

 

Student debt will more often than not consist of a maxed out overdraft, some credit and store cards and the odd item or two on finance. For this kind of debt, there a few things you can do to save yourself some money.

You can get one big loan to pay off your multiple student debts which is unsurprisingly called a debt consolidation loan. The benefit of this is that because you’re taking out a big amount you can get a low rate of interest and save significant amounts of money. It also enables you to manage your money far easier because your debt is in one place as apposed to all over the place.

 

Another option to help conquer student debt is to get hold of a credit card with 0% on balance transfers. There are plenty of these kinds of offers around and they can be quite handy. For example, if you owe £1000 on a credit card which is charging you 15% a month in interest, you can transfer this debt to a new credit card and pay nothing in interest for up to a year. This allows you to chop down your debt far quicker.

However much money you owe, or whatever solution you’re considering we’ve got lots of student debt help here in the form of advice, news and useful resources to help you with your problems.

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