This is a sponsored post on behalf of our friends at Citizens Bank. Despite Citizens Bank’s sponsorship, all opinions and/or advice are provided by YoungAdultMoney.com. #sponsored. We kicked off the year here at Young Adult Money with a challenge to anyone with student loans: take control of your student loans and your financial life. This […]
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If you’re one of the more than forty million Americans with student loans, you know what a drag they can be on your financial life. Right out of grad school my wife and I owed approximately $1,000 a month (minimum) towards student loans. It doesn’t take a mathematician to realize what a drag that […]
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How would you like to have your student loans forgiven? Tax free? This is a silly question to ask. Anyone with student loans would like to have their forgiven tax free! Many are becoming aware that there is a way to have your student loans forgiven through a process called Public Service Loan Forgiveness, […]
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This is a sponsored post on behalf of our friends at Citizens Bank. Despite Citizens Bank’s sponsorship, all opinions and/or advice are provided by YoungAdultMoney.com. #sponsored. College and graduate school can be exhausting. Which begs the question: Why can’t student loans be simple? Unfortunately, student loans are complicated. The good news is that if you […]
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This is a sponsored post on behalf of our friends at Citizens Bank. Despite Citizens Bank’s sponsorship, all opinions and/or advice are provided by YoungAdultMoney.com. #sponsored. We’ve all been there. We planned on getting up early and working out to kick our day off right. But when that alarm goes off our bed feels warm […]
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There are many things you can do this year to improve your financial life. You can start or add to an existing emergency fun. You can invest in a retirement account. You can budget. This year I want to encourage you to take a specific money challenge: take control of your student loan debt. Everyone’s […]
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Four years after graduating college, I’m free from my student loan debt. I managed to pay off $30,000 of student loan debt. It wasn’t an easy journey by any means. Regardless, my student loan debt forced me to take a good, hard look at my financial situation and taught me some lessons, albeit hard lessons, […]
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Based on content from the book Student Loan Solution: 5 Steps to Take Control of your Student Loans and Financial Life. Over one million new borrowers default on federal student loans each year, and according to a January 2018 report published by the Brookings Institution, nearly 40 percent of student loan borrowers may default on […]
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If you are a personal finance fiend, you may be familiar with both the debt avalanche and the debt snowball method of paying off debt. But if you’re not familiar, that’s okay. In short, both methods are strategies people use to pay off their debt, fast. In the debt avalanche, you pay down your highest-interest […]
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It isn’t easy to get out of debt quickly when you have a small income. But it’s far from impossible. No matter how small your income or how big your debt, it is possible to be debt free. You just have to be honest with yourself, work consistently, and not give up. Here are 7 […]
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