In the United States the Federal Family Education Loan Program (FFELP) and the Federal Direct Student Loan Program (FDLP) include student consolidation loans that allow students to consolidate Stafford Loans, PLUS Loans, and Federal Perkins Loans into one single debt. It basically allows you (and your spouse if married or parents if they have a PLUS loan) to combine several types of federal student loans with various repayment schedules into one loan with one monthly repayment. This results in reduced monthly repayments and a longer term for the loan. Unlike the other loans, consolidation loans have a fixed interest rate for the life of the loan.
Consolidation loans have longer terms than other loans. Debtors can choose terms of 10 to 30 years. The monthly repayments are lower but the total amount paid over the term of the loan is higher than would be paid with other loans. The fixed interest rate is calculated as the weighted average of the interest rates of the loans being consolidated, assigning relative weights according to the amounts borrowed, rounded up to the nearest 0.125%, and capped at 8.25%. Features like postgraduation grace periods and special forgiveness circumstances of the original consolidated loans are not carried over into the consolidation loan, and consolidation loans are not universally suitable for all debtors.
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