MONEY HELP

Student Loans

Your Brightside Financial Assistant helps you and your family understand your best student loan options, based on your financial big picture, by phone or chat.

At no cost to you through Choose Well.

Make sense of your student loans

Know your loans

Find your servicer and understand your balance, rate, and status.

Lower your payments

Explore and enroll in income-driven and reduced-payment plans — with help staying eligible year after year, through Savi, Brightside’s student loan partner.

Explore forgiveness

Know whether public service loan forgiveness (or others) fit your situation — and how to apply and maintain your progress.

Navigate new rules

Understand plan changes, deadlines, borrowing limits, and collections or garnishment notices.

One conversation makes a difference

Todd had let his student loans go unpaid for years and wasn’t sure where to start. His Brightside Financial Assistant connected him with a student loan partner who cut his total balance from $4,350 to $1,650 — and lowered his monthly payment to just $37.

You deserve support with your student loans.

It’s easy — just share a couple of sentences about what’s going on with your Brightside Financial Assistant by phone or chat (your choice). They’re like that friend on your side who knows what to do and how to make things easier.
Financial Assistants are available M–F, 5 a.m.–6 p.m. PT.