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Obama proposal to help students manage loans
: Students sound off on student loans
In 2007, Penn announced a new initiative financed by the Making History Campaign, which began in 2008. This new program offers loan-free aid packages for students with family income less than $100,000, and a 10-percent reduction in need-based loans for those from families earning about $100,000.
Obama’s proposal will in turn help students understand “how much in loans [they] have to take out and what those loans will look like when [they] have to start repaying them” after graduation, Rich Williams, a representative from the United States Public Interest Research Group said.
“In a global economy, putting a college education within reach for every American has never been more important… But it’s also never been more expensive,” Obama said in a statement. “That’s why today we’re taking steps to help nearly 1.6 million Americans lower their monthly student loan payments.”
During the 2007-08 academic year, 67 percent of students graduated from four-year colleges and universities with debt, according to a study by the Project on Student Debt published last Thursday. This corresponds to about 1.4 million students who owed an average of about $23,000 upon graduating.
Credit Counseling and Debt Consolidation: What to Watch Out For ...
I just returned from Philadelphia and it is time to get back to work up in here. The worst aren’t credit counselors at all, writes Liz Pulliam Weston for MSN.com’s personal finance column. She says that they typically bill themselves as experts in “debt settlement,” they pledge to make it possible for you to get rid of your debts for pennies on the dollar — after you pay an upfront fee that can run $3,000 or even more. Weston reports that it isn’t easy to find out just how many people have signed up for debt repayment plans through credit-counseling services. If you need a good philadelphia credit counseling then I think that these guys can probaly help you. Obviously they are based in Philadelphia, pennsylvania. She cites Lydia Sermons-Ward, spokeswoman for the National Foundation for Credit Counseling, who says that of those in debt repayment plans, roughly half were expected to complete their plans. The other half were unsuccessful and some of those would end up in bankruptcy.
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