In the government consolidation loan program there are no deadlines to it. It means you can apply for the student loan anytime during the grace period or even on the repayment period.

However, to consolidate student loans, some issues should be taken into account. It is usually better to do that during your grace period. This is because of the lower in-school interest rate applied to estimate the weighted average fixed rate to consolidate the debts – at this time it will be the most advantageous. 

After the grace period - higher in-repayment interest rate comes into action.

Another issue to know is that even when your student loans are in repayment it is still allowed to consolidate student loans.  This is because when you consolidate student loans at this time, you already fix the interest rate on your government student loans while the rates are still originally low. 

This is not the end of the tips about students debt help, the new materials are going to be published shortly.