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No. If they accept it, it'll be treated as cash, so you'll pay a fee as well as not getting any points.
Much cheaper to pay it off with your own money.1 -
The only way you could pay a loan with your credit card is if you had a money transfer card - that allowed you to move money at a promotional rate to your current account, and then on to the loan account. Your new card with all its benefits won't be able to do that. Unless you can get 0 percent APR and a 0 percent fee - then you're better off using your own savings to pay it off if that's an option.0
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