Who wants to help me spend (or save!) my bonus?

[JackieWard]

Put the whole 6k on your $6,100 student loan to increase your monthly cash flow immediately. Then you can swing harder at those student loans each month. When you diversify your income you minimize the impact of those dollars.

[snafu]

riverwed, how much have you already paid in interest on these SLs? What benefit do you get from interest paid to lenders? If you no longer owed $ 4,500. or DH's $ 9,200. it would improve your Net Worth and allow you to re-deploy that $ 200. [$ 2,400. per year] elsewhere.