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College funds for foster children mostly unused

…  care system, lobbied the state’s General Assembly as a college student in support of a foster child tuition grant program. The …  students eligible for the program must exhaust all loans and federal work-study funds before they can receive any money from the …

September 4th, 2007

3 Schools Act To Settle College Loan Questions

…  private colleges in Connecticut will add a total of $75,000 to their scholarship funds …  allegations of questionable arrangements with a student loan agency, Attorney General Richard Blumenthal said Monday. Trinity College, Fairfield University and Sacred Heart University all denied any …

August 29th, 2007

House Passes College Loan Bill, Inviting Veto Threat

The House of Representatives has approved the College Cost Reduction Act, which will cut subsidies to lenders and limit loan interest for students. The White House has threatened to veto the …

July 13th, 2007

House OKs Pell grant increase, lower college-loan interest rates

…  students and halving interest rates on federally backed loans with the savings. The bill passed 273-149, in a sometimes-raucous …  of lenders, exposing systems of paying commissions to colleges to win business and offering college officials free trips and other …

July 13th, 2007

College Cost Reduction Act

College is becoming more affordable for students with loans. Legislature passed the College Cost Reduction Act today. The 18-billion dollar investment will go …

July 13th, 2007

UWSP student financial aid grant’s future in jeopardy

…  are not going to be able to take an additional loan to offset that dollar loss,” said financial aid director Paul Watson. …  of student affairs at UWSP, said the grants make college accessible to students who wouldn’t otherwise be able to attend. “As …  get left behind,” he said. The Wisconsin Technical College System has a similar situation, as its request for a 8.1 percent …

July 7th, 2007

NextStudent Urges Wisdom When Considering College Debt Repayment Strategy

…  college students across the country recently have received their degrees and …  into the real world, which includes repaying their student loans. According to NextStudent, a leading Phoenix-based education funding company, composing a strategy for repaying college student debt is simple, once borrowers are armed with accurate, easily …

July 7th, 2007

New law increases student loan limits

College students will be able to borrow more from Uncle Sam and pay less in fees …  the first time that the annual limits on federal Stafford Loans have increased since 1992. Over the same time period, tuition rates have …  a student may need if he or she attends a fifth year of college, Taylor said. “The government is essentially saying you can borrow more …

July 7th, 2007

Loan limits increase for college students

…  takes effect this week spells more money in the pockets of college undergraduates who borrow from Uncle Sam. The new law changes the annual Stafford loan limits for students who qualify for financial aid. The change provides an …

July 7th, 2007

Schumer pushes for college-loan disclosure

…  Schumer learned about the misleading nature of college loans the hard way. With his youngest daughter heading off to college and the older one entering law school, the U.S. senator knew he needed …

July 7th, 2007

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