July 2012 Student Loan Debt Updates

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But Tiffany, it’s October, why are you doing the July update now?

Well, dear reader, this was a busy busy summer. And I wanted to get these numbers down before Sallie Mae updates my monthly payment amount after my October payment.

So I’ve continued my trend of paying as much as I possibly can each month, though I took a dip in available income because my pet rabbit had a medical emergency that required hospitalization and ended up costing a pretty penny in vet bills over most of the summer. He’s a-ok now and I have no problem paying whatever it takes to keep my pets healthy and happy, but that did set me back a bit in how much money I could pay towards my loans.

However, since then I’ve started working on a few side projects in hopes of bringing in some extra income to help me with paying down my debt, so hopefully that will give me a big boost for my numbers.

In April, Sallie Mae dropped my monthly payment to $973.17. Between April and July I paid $820.78 extra on my loans, including $15.78 from Upromise.

My new monthly payment is: $962.77

That’s only a drop of $10.40, but I’ll take it.

Last time I talked about how my billing is a bit screwed up because I paid so much extra that Sallie Mae advanced my due date. Well I talked to customer service about it and they basically told me there’s nothing they can do to fix that so it shows the amount due normally. It will just keep saying $0 due unless I just don’t make a payment for a month–which I’m definitely not going to do!

So I’ll just deal with it and keep making the payments.

Here’s the stats (all for where I was in July):
Total Sallie Mae Debt: $85,258.80
Months of Payment Left: 147
Original Monthly Payment: $1,024.70
Current Monthly Payment: $962.77
Total Pre-Payment Savings: $9,234.35

Posted at 1:19 PM, October 7, 2012 by Tiffany

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Comments

3 Comments on July 2012 Student Loan Debt Updates

Kelly on Sun, 7th Oct 2012 7:55 PM

I just checked the Sallie Mae website and on the side it says something about redesigning their website. When you click on it they give you general details about the redesign. One of the pages talks about making extra payments easier with an option for applying the payment towards principle without the caveat of having to make equal to 2 payments. Let’s see when they release this redesign whether or not this is true. It sure would make things easier for those of us who are trying to be responsible!

Thanks for your blog. It makes me feel better knowing there is someone out there going through the same troubles I am!

Tiffany on Thu, 11th Oct 2012 8:22 AM

Thanks Kelly!I’m glad you’re enjoying the blog.

I haven’t seen anything about the redesign, but I will go check it out. Anything Sallie Mae can do to make our lives easier would be great (especially since they only seem to want to make out lives difficult )

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