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Student Loan Borrower Rates and Lender Yields

Borrower Rates

Fixed Interest Rates for Loans First Disbursed on or after July 1, 2006

Federal Stafford Loans
Undergraduate Subsidized Loans - For loans first disbursed after July 1, 2008

6.00%

Federal Stafford Loans 
Graduate Subsidized Loans
Unsubsidized Dependant & Independent Loans  

6.80%

Federal Parent PLUS/Grad PLUS Loans

8.50%

Federal Consolidation Loans
Weighted average of the interest rates on the loans consolidated, rounded up to the nearest 1/8th of one percent. 


Variable
Interest Rates for Loans First Disbursed Between
July 1, 1998 and June 30, 2006

Federal Stafford Loans - In-school, Grace, or Deferment

3.61%

Federal Stafford Loans - Repayment or Forbearance

4.21%

Federal Parent PLUS/Grad PLUS Loans

5.01%

Federal Consolidation Loans
Weighted average of the interest rates on the loans consolidated, rounded up to the nearest 1/8th of one percent. 


Lender Yields 

For quarter ending June 30, 2008

  Commercial Paper Rate (CPR) + Special Allowance = Yield

 

 3 month CPR 

 Special Allowance

 Yield

Federal Stafford Loans -
In-school, Grace or Deferment 

 2.75%

 1.19%

3.94%

Federal Stafford Loans
Repayment or Forbearance

 2.75%

 1.79%

4.54%

Federal Parent PLUS/
Grad PLUS Loans

 2.75%

 1.79%

4.54% 

Federal Consolidation Loans 

 2.75%

 2.09%

4.84%

  • When the borrower rate is higher than the lender yield, it is considered excess interest which the credit union remits back to the Department of Education. 
  • When the lender yield is higher than the borrower rate, the credit union retains the excess.