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Does Sallie Mae accept credit cards to pay for student loan bill?

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mrdrum18
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Does Sallie Mae accept credit cards to pay for student loan bill?

Just wondering if when I my loan disburses if I can pay my bill online with my American Express card?

Thanks!
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niecey89
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Re: Does Sallie Mae accept credit cards to pay for student loan bill?

Online you can only use checking or savings account. You might want to call them and see if the accepted CC. If they did 3/4 of my loans would be paid off
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mrdrum18
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Re: Does Sallie Mae accept credit cards to pay for student loan bill?



@niecey89 wrote:
Online you can only use checking or savings account. You might want to call them and see if the accepted CC. If they did 3/4 of my loans would be paid off




hmm...looks like here someone else was able to pay the minimum: [REMOVED link to credit repair site]

 



Message Edited by Timothy on 09-18-2008 05:48 AM
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Anonymous
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Re: Does Sallie Mae accept credit cards to pay for student loan bill?

Wouldn't you just be tacking more interest onto your student loan?  With my CC interest rates I'd be in the poorhouse inside of six months!
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mrdrum18
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Re: Does Sallie Mae accept credit cards to pay for student loan bill?



@Anonymous wrote:
Wouldn't you just be tacking more interest onto your student loan?  With my CC interest rates I'd be in the poorhouse inside of six months!





If I PIF, than there is no added interest. What I do get is rewards points, and the ability to only pay one consolidated bill....
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iDShaDoW
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Re: Does Sallie Mae accept credit cards to pay for student loan bill?

If you can pay it with your credit card and then PIF the credit card then it'd be worth it.

You'd have to have some really low interest rates on your CC to make it worthwhile if you're gonna be carrying the balance of your student loan on your CC instead.

The Stafford Loans are like 6-7% or something like that. Your CC is probably around 8-12%.




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Anonymous
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Re: Does Sallie Mae accept credit cards to pay for student loan bill?

We've been paying on DH's SL (consolidated with ACS, if that makes a difference) for over 10 years and we've NEVER been able to pay via CC. For some reason, dunno if it has to do with our loans being backed by the Fed gov, they seem to take a dim view (as was explained to me by a ACS CSR) to paying a gubmint debt with borrowed funds.

That being said, I'd bet that they'd accept a check drafted off your CC account ... but if IANM, the "cash advance" APR would apply in that case.

If you decide to try it, I hope you have a heckuva good and l-o-o-n-g Intro APR!! Smiley Wink
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cny
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Re: Does Sallie Mae accept credit cards to pay for student loan bill?

you can pay with a credit card for a one time payment. you can not be set up with a payment plan using a credit card due to the fact that people will set up payments and they will cancle the card or the card would be maxed out. you would still have to call sallie mae in order to make the cc payment.

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