Loan calculator for debt consolidation

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Debt consolidation loans can be a great way to improve your personal financial health. If you have accrued debt from multiple credit cards that have high interest rates, a personal loan for debt consolidation through Prosper could offer you a lower rate than the average of your cards’ rates, and it could decrease your monthly payments and/or the amount of total interest you pay over time. It’s important to remember, however, that financial health improvement depends on multiple factors, such as spending within one’s means and not accruing new credit card debt.

If you have debt that’s in default or if you’ve missed payments, it’s wise to prioritize closing collections accounts or paying off current overdue bills before doing anything else. If you’re not late on payments or in default, it’s advisable to pay off your smallest debts first while maintaining minimum payments elsewhere (assuming you’re not just consolidating debts with a debt consolidation loan or other consolidation tool). Once you pay off the smallest debt, you can take the money you would have put toward that monthly fee and put it towards the next smallest debt, and so on.

Depending on what kinds of debts you have and the average interest rate those debts carry, debt consolidation can be a great way to consolidate your debts into a single payment. Debt consolidation can make sense if you’ve calculated that you will pay less cumulative interest by doing so.

Loan payment calculation depends on multiple factors. To learn more about how loan payments are typically calculated, visit this article from the Balance.

Different lenders have different approaches to calculating interest, but generally speaking, you can calculate simple interest with this straight-forward formula: Principal loan amount x interest rate x loan term. For example, if you take out a 7-year loan for $30,000 and the interest rate is 7%, the simple interest formula would be: 30,000 x .07 x 7 = 14,700