Participants | August 28th, 2018 OneAmerica Participant Survey Highlights Pervasive Student Debt Challenges The OneAmerica survey examines other topics relating to participant financial wellness, including health care expenses and the use of health...
Benefits | August 22nd, 2018 Employees Feel Employers Should Help Pay Student Loan Debt IonTuition finds more than half (52%) of respondents still owe more than $15,000 in student loans, and the year-over-year data...
Data and Research | August 21st, 2018 Majority Think Financial Security Is Unattainable Paying down debt is a higher priority for survey respondents than saving.
Products | August 16th, 2018 Program Allows Participants to Move Matches to Student Loan Debt With a new service from BenefitEd, workers can move the entire match over to pay down their student loan debt...
Compliance | July 11th, 2018 Hardship Withdrawal Safe Harbor Covers Tuition, But Not Loan Repayments Plans which permit non-safe harbor hardship distributions could theoretically approve a participant’s hardship distribution request for the repayment of student...
Data and Research | July 2nd, 2018 Student Loan Size Does Not Hinder 401(k) Participation However, a brief released from the Center of Retirement Research shows retirement wealth accumulation is affected by having student loans.
Benefits | June 12th, 2018 Crowd Funded 529 Plans Show Promise for Employees Franklin Templeton last year launched the Spryng crowd funding platform for college savings; at this point the firm has not...
Data and Research | May 22nd, 2018 Other Financial Issues Impacting Retirement Confidence and Savings While employees are grappling with things like higher health care costs, financially supporting other family members and debt, a study...
Benefits | May 9th, 2018 Simple Steps to Provide Successful Student Loan Repayment Benefits Student debt management is a complex and delicate issue that has a significant impact on employees’ broad financial wellness—but providing...
Benefits | March 19th, 2018 Proposed Legislation Would Address Student Loan Debt and Social Security Solvency A poll by LendEDU finds 46% of Americans would participate in a proposed program that would provide loan forgiveness to...
Opinions | February 12th, 2018 To Prioritize Retirement Saving May Not Be Best for All Workers Many may need to set up an emergency fund or pay off debt first.
Data and Research | November 15th, 2017 Being Ill-Prepared for Retirement a Stressor for Americans For Millennials, student loan debt, credit cards and health care expenses all measured equally as causes for “extreme” amounts of...
Data and Research | November 13th, 2017 Workers Will Sacrifice Benefits for Student Loan Repayment Options One-third would sacrifice retirement benefits.
Products | September 19th, 2017 FutureFuel.io Aims to Bring Student Loan Refinancing to the Mobile Age The SaaS firm has expanded its platform and initiated new partnerships to help employers easily roll out student loan refinancing...
Benefits | September 15th, 2017 Helping Workers Struggling With Student Loan Debt With education and new tools, plan sponsors can help employees get student loan debt under control.