Read This Before Making Your First Student Loan Payment

The end of the student loan grace period means an end to the heady days of payment-free living. Now, every month, you’ll part with a chunk of money that perhaps you’d rather spend on something — anything — else. You can’t change the fact that you have student loans. But you can make the next... Brianna McGurran is a writer at NerdWallet.

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