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Borrower Benefits 2009-2010

AlaskAdvantage Borrower Benefits are cost reductions, typically applied as quarterly or annual account credits or as interest rate reductions, on non-subsidized loans.* Benefits are variable, meaning that a new benefits package, if any, must be approved each program year. AlaskAdvantage Borrower Benefits provide cost reductions available only when you borrow from AlaskAdvantage Loan Programs (Stafford, PLUS, Alaska Supplemental Education Loan, Alaska Consolidation, and Special Program Loans). Current benefit levels are:

AlaskAdvantage Benefit

What Is It?

Who Gets It?

How Much Is It?

Alaska Presence Benefit

An annual cost reduction for qualifying borrowers who attend an Alaska school or who live in Alaska while they are repaying their loans

Fixed rate AlaskAdvantage Unsubsidized Stafford, ASEL, PLUS, and Federal Consolidation borrowers attending a school physically located in Alaska

Fixed rate AlaskAdvantage Unsubsidized Stafford, ASEL, PLUS, Federal Consolidation and PSEP borrowers who reside in Alaska after they finish school and enter repayment

An annual cost reduction from .50% to 1.20% depending on your loan type. See details

Direct Payment Benefit

A cost reduction for participating in qualifying automated payment methods

Borrowers who use ACPE’s Web Pay or payroll deduction programs while their loans are in repayment

An interest rate reduction of .25%

Timely Payment Benefit

A cost reduction for borrowers in repayment who have made their first 48 consecutive on-time payments

Borrowers in repayment who have made their first 48 consecutive on-time payments

From 1% to 2%, depending on your loan type See Details...

Origination Fee Paid

No origination fees on qualifying loans

All AlaskAdvantage Stafford borrowers

Origination fee of .5% fully subsidized.

Default Fee Paid No default fee on qualifying loans.

All AlaskAdvantage Stafford and PLUS Loan borrowers

Default fee of 1% fully subsidized

* Defaulted loans may not be eligible for certain borrower benefits.

 

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