The workforce is changing the nature of perks. Learn why employers are helping repay student loans in the article below.
Financial Aid Woes? Could A College Education Abroad Be The Solution?
In the United States, the complexities of trying to qualify for financial aid while preparing to owe thousands in student loans is the norm. So much so that a serious question almost never pops into the minds of troubled teens…
Student Loans: The Only Debt Millennials Care About?
Student loans are the beginning and end of debt problems for Millennials, a fact that previous generations cannot seem to wrap their heads around. Out of one side of their mouths, Baby Boomers and Gen Xers are appalled that today’s…
Student Loans? Get a Life Insurance Policy
When Steve and Darnelle Mason co-signed their daughter’s student loans to help her pay for nursing school, the couple never thought the decision would come back to haunt them. After all, that was what all parents did for their children…
Federal Student Loans Are Changing, Here’s How
If you plan to attend college and don’t have enough money saved to foot the bill, you might have to resort to getting a federal student loan. Don’t worry, most students need loans to help them pay for college and…
Student Loans: Three Tips To Pay Them Off
If you attended or are attending college, the chances are that you have a student loan. Student loans are a way to pay for your classes, housing and even books and supplies, but once you graduate and it comes time…
Student Loan Debt Is $1.1 Trillion; Obama Tries To Do Something About It
Since President Barack Obama was elected in 2009, the federal student loan debt increased to 517 percent. The Federal Reserve Bank of New York estimated the student loan debt at $1.1 trillion with $650 billion in credit card debt. Although…
Elizabeth Warren Student Loan Bill Up for Senate Vote Wednesday
Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) has been working on behalf of Americans with student loan debt since she took office in 2012. The first bill the freshman senator ever filed, back in May 2013, was designed to offer new, shockingly-low student loan…
Student Loans: Sallie Mae To Refund Military Members Who Paid Too Much Interest
Student loans are already bad enough, but the interest rates are what kills most graduates trying to pay it all back. With interest rates capped at 6 percen for military members, it’s not as bad as it could be. Unfortunately…
Debt Consolidation Can Help Those Burdened By Student Loans
Debt consolidation isn’t a term you hear all that often outside of financial circles. After all, why would a young student have to worry about lumping their debt together? For the student with thousands of dollars in debt across different…
Student Loans: 3 Ways to Avoid That Mess
For many young people about to head off to college (in the U.S.), the necessity of student loans is a foregone conclusion. You have to get them, right? Your parents had them. The only way to avoid it was to…
Graduate Student Loans Regulations Proposed by Obama
The Obama administration took new steps on Friday and proposed “gainful employment” regulations to hold for-profit colleges and other career training programs accountable for producing graduates who can earn enough money to pay back student loans. The regulations are intended…
Debt Consolidation: Beware of Student Loan Scams
It seems that just about everyone has student loan debt at one time in their lives, and as far as debt is concerned, that seems to be the kind that holds on the longest. If you’re having trouble paying down…
Student Loans Spike to Top $1 Trillion
The sharp rise in the nation’s student loan debt, now upwards of $1 trillion, is most concentrated among Americans with poor credit, according to a report released by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York on Tuesday. According to the…
Student Loans – Students Up To Their Eyeballs In Debt Can Find Relief
Student loan debt is mounting and although earning a degree can promise a better career after graduation – the debt can be stressful to those saddled with huge loans. Today, nearly 40 million Americans are burdened with $1.2 trillion in…
Occupy Wall Street Buys Debt at 50-1, Abolishes It
Reuters and the Guardian both report one of Occupy Wall Street’s spinoff groups, the Rolling Jubilee Project, announcing this week that they have successfully bought $14.7 million in healthcare debt accumulated by Americans for roughly $400,000. Rolling Jubilee was set…
Financial Aid Changes at UVa Protested by Students
In August of this year, board members at the University of Virginia decided to made significant changes to its financial aid program, called AccesUVa. According to the University of Virginia, this program accommodated 100% of the demonstrated need of students…