The Government Student Loan How-To
By Jimmy Chuang
Federal government student loans are usually the first loan option that many students consider when looking for money to continue their educational program.
Most students will first, of course, look for the so called "free money" that is provided in the form of scholarships, bursaries or grants or in some cases from a business that pays for their degree in return for a contracted employment after graduation.
Government student loans may either be subsidized or unsubsidized. They can be loans such as the Stafford or Perkins, or even loans for parents such as the PLUS loans.
Subsidized loans will not have any interest charged from the time the student gets the loan until the grace period after graduation is completed. Hence, when a student graduates after a 4 year education, if the student borrowed $20,000—they will respectively only owe the original $20,000.
Unsubsidized student loans will have interest charged while the student is in school, regardless of if the student wants to decrease future loan payments by paying the interest while in school.
Students may or may not qualify for subsidized loans depending on their resources and their current financial means and needs. From your own home, quite a few simple government student loan applications can be completed.
By answering some simple questions online, you can easily complete a FAFSA (Free Application for Federal Student Aid) and know if you qualify almost instantly. You are then able to determine how much you are eligible to receive, as well as if you need parental consent for the government student loan by providing you with a set of worksheets.
You can submit your FAFSA application either online or by printing them out, completing them, and then sending them to the address provided. Your online signature can be created as a PIN (personal identification number) which is used on any documents you have to submit.
You simply go through the FAFSA and insert the required information, save, then open, double check and make any necessary corrections and submit your application. A SAR (Student Aid Report) is provided after the submission of the FAFSA. Using the same PIN number and website as the FAFSA application, government student loan information is available online.
Other schools listed on your form can also access your electronic copy. By simply using your PIN on the website, you can easily make corrections and additions to the processed SAR.
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