You should be able to as they are individual loans.
If you are in default on federal student loans you are not eligible for financial aid until you get them out of default.
Actually, the default will stay on your credit indefinately until you get out of default. Student loan default on Federally Guaranteed student loans has no statute of limitation. If you consolidate your defaulted student loans, they will show up as Paid In Full on your credit report. You can get help with the consolidation of your student loans through www.defaultms.com Any default is going to stick around for about 7 years.
Yes, you can take out additional loans as long as you are not in Default on the current loans.
If your loans are Federally Guaranteed Student Loans, like Stafford or Perkins loans, then yes there is help. This company specializes in helping people that are in default: www.defaultms.com
Student loans can show up as "baddies" on your credit report if they are paid late or in default. These loans are reported similar to revolving loans or lines of credit.
If your loans are in a Deferment, then they were never in a Default status, they may have been delinquent. You are not eligible for Deferment while loans are Default. So to answer your question, yes you are eligible to take out additional loans if you are in a Deferment.
If you are living in the US, then the answer is no if the loans are in default. You will not be eligible for another Federal student loan until the loans are rehabilitated for 12 months or consolidated. If you need help with consolidation of your defaulted loans, please click on the link at the bottom of this text box. In some other countries, student loans can be awarded as long as you fill the requirements (i.e. are a student at an approved institution and have a minimum of courses). You can simply keep adding to the loans and pay them off later when you finish studying, or while paying them off.
yes if they default it will hurt your credit yes if they default it will hurt your credit
yes if they default it will hurt your credit yes if they default it will hurt your credit
Sometimes private student loans can be consolidated depending on certain factors including the rules of your lender, whether you are in deferrment or default and your credit score. You cannot however, consolidate federal student loans and private student loans together.
Not if he did not cosign on the loans.
OP here with more details: the private student loans they are cosigned on are current/paid on time, but other private student loans (with the same lender) are about to default. Can this in any way cause problems for my cosigner?