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	<title>Student Loans : News, Updates and Blog Posts &#187; PLUS Loans</title>
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		<title>Get Info on your Federal Loans Online</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Can't remember how much of your graduate school tuition will be covered by a Stafford Loan? Want to know when your next PLUS loan disbursement will arrive? You can access all of your federal loan details online through the Department of Education’s National Student Loan Data System (NSLDS) database.]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.studentloannetwork.com/stafford-loan/get-info-on-your-federal-loans-online/</link>
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		<title>Some Alternative Ways to Pay off Your Stafford Loans</title>
		<description><![CDATA[If you are a recent graduate, once your grace period comes to a close, you will be tasked with repaying your federal student loans. While many people opt for standard repayment, there are actually alternative means as well -  if you are eligible.]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.studentloannetwork.com/stafford-loan/some-alternative-ways-to-pay-off-your-stafford-loans/</link>
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		<title>FICO and your Private Student Loan</title>
		<description><![CDATA[If you have been looking for a private student loan, you might have come across the word FICO. Your FICO score, or your credit score, is basically a rating assigned to you based on your credit history. A good score can help you get a car, a house, and, yes, a private student loan. So what do you need to know about FICO?]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.studentloannetwork.com/private-student-loans/fico-and-your-private-student-loan/</link>
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		<title>My parents make too much! How can I get a federal loan?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[What to do when your parents' income makes you ineligible for a federal Stafford loan? Here are some other federal-based options.]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.studentloannetwork.com/stafford-loan/my-parents-make-too-much-how-can-i-get-a-federal-loan/</link>
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		<title>Parent PLUS loans and divorce</title>
		<description><![CDATA[If you're an estranged parent or the child of divorce, you might be wondering which parent is responsible in certain student loan situations. Here is a brief overview.]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.studentloannetwork.com/plus-loans/parent-plus-loans-and-divorce/</link>
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		<title>Consolidation and Parent PLUS loans</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The consolidation section of our Financial Aid forum is consistently littered with questions about how to consolidate certain types of loans. One useful, but tricky loan type is the Parent PLUS.]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.studentloannetwork.com/plus-loans/consolidation-and-parent-plus-loans/</link>
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		<title>Pell Grant Eligibility</title>
		<description><![CDATA[What qualifies me for a federal Pell Grant

The first thing you need to do is complete your FAFSA. Your FAFSA is the key to any and all financial aid.
Second, you must be enrolled in an undergraduate course of study, though there are some rare teaching certificate exceptions
If you have received an associate degree, or any [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.studentloannetwork.com/financial-aid/pell-grant-eligibility/</link>
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		<title>Get Financial Aid and Never Leave Your House</title>
		<description><![CDATA[With some schools no longer able to afford the overhead costs of running a college institution&#8230;many schools have decided to beef up their online degree programs. It saves the school money to have more students take classes online than it does to have them on campus. Online degree programs are growing rapidly, and more and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.studentloannetwork.com/financial-aid/get-financial-aid-and-never-leave-your-house/</link>
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		<title>Death &amp; Permanent Disability Benefit</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s not something that any of us want to think about, but it is a sad realty of life. If you take out a Stafford loan and something happens to you where you wind up permanently disabled or worse, the entire amount of the loan is forgiven.
I know when I was 18 I didn&#8217;t pay [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.studentloannetwork.com/student-loan-links/death-permanent-disability-benefit/</link>
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		<title>The FAFSA and Credit Card Debt</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Let me first start off by saying that even if your credit is has been severely affected by credit card debt, or any other kind of debt&#8230;.you can still file a FAFSA and receive a Stafford loan. Your FAFSA results are not affected by your credit history. Recently there was a post on forum that [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.studentloannetwork.com/fafsa/the-fafsa-and-credit-card-debt/</link>
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