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How College Refunds Work Plus The Benefits Of Tuition Insurance (opens the original)
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College tuition refunds are rare. Many colleges only give a full refund if you withdraw before the first day of class, and most stop refunding anything at all within about a month of the start date. Check your own school's schedule now, because the window closes faster than most families expect. If a withdrawal is on the table, the financial impact of dropping out of college goes well beyond the lost semester. The numbers make this worth taking seriously. For 2025-26, the College Board puts aver
NIL Money And Taxes: What College Athletes Owe The IRS, The FAFSA, And Their Agent (opens the original)
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College athletes are getting paid, and many of them don’t know what to do with it to maximize their long term wealth. The money arrives with no tax withheld, no benefits attached, no HR department explaining anything, and a set of rules that punish anyone who assumes a paycheck is a paycheck. The window is short, too. NCAA data puts the odds of a draft-eligible football player getting drafted at 1.4%, and men’s basketball at 1.0%, while the NCAA’s own GOALS research found roughly 74% of FBS foot
ED Changes Grad PLUS Rule: Credit Hours Now Decide Who Keeps Uncapped Student Loans (opens the original)
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The Education Department has quietly changed how it decides whether continuing graduate students can still borrow uncapped Grad PLUS loans, and the change is already generating denials for students who have been enrolled. During an August 12 Federal Student Aid webinar on the implementation of new loan limits and the interim exception for continuing students , FSA staff told schools to calculate “expected time to credential” using credit hours completed rather than time enrolled. That formula de
Parent PLUS Caps At $20,000 A Year, Leaving Cosigners Fewer Options In Year 4 (opens the original)
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As of July 1, 2026, new Parent PLUS borrowers are capped at $20,000 per dependent student per year and $65,000 for that student's entire undergraduate career. Before this change, Parent PLUS went all the way up to the school's full certified cost of attendance. For families at expensive schools, that program was the entire plan. It closed whatever the aid package didn't, and it did so without much scrutiny. The problem you notice - $20,000 per year doesn’t translate to $65,000 if your child atte
PSLF Payment Counts Drop as Education Department Corrects IDR Adjustment Errors (opens the original)
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Borrowers chasing Public Service Loan Forgiveness have spent the past two weeks watching their qualifying payment counts move in the wrong direction. Some lost six months. Some lost more. The fear running through borrower forums is that the Trump administration is quietly unwinding PSLF, or reversing the one-time income-driven repayment account adjustment that brought millions of borrowers years closer to forgiveness. Based on the accounts we’ve reviewed and what the Department has confirmed on
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