Student Loan Debt Archives

Q&A Spotlight: Barbara Friedberg

Aug 3, 2016 | Conference, Press Releases, Student Loan Repayment Assistance

Welcome to another installment of IonTuition’s Q&A series with personal finance bloggers. Today, we have Barbara Friedberg, MBA, MS sharing her personal finance advice with us. Barbara is a former investment portfolio manager, author of Personal Finance; An...

Q&A Spotlight: The Debt Myth

Jul 27, 2016 | Conference, Press Releases, Student Loan Repayment Assistance

Thanks for joining us for another installment of IonTuition’s Q&A series with personal finance bloggers. Today we have Jackie Beck of The Debt Myth sharing her financial story. She and her husband paid off over $147,000 in debt (including their house and her...

Q&A Spotlight: Teddy Nykiel

Jul 13, 2016 | Conference, Press Releases, Student Loan Repayment Assistance

Welcome to another installment of IonTuition’s Q&A series with personal finance bloggers. Today we have the Teddy Nykiel, staff writer for NerdWallet’s education blog, offering her financial advice. Teddy graduated from the University of Missouri in May 2014 with...

Q&A Spotlight: The Frugalennial

Jul 6, 2016 | Conference, Press Releases, Student Loan Repayment Assistance

Welcome to another installment of IonTuition’s Q&A series with personal finance bloggers. Today we have Kelby, ‘Chief Frugality Officer’ and resident personal finance blogger behind The Frugalennial, sharing his financial advice with us today. Kelby created The...

What you need to know about 2016-17 Federal Direct Student Loan interest rates:

Jul 1, 2016 | News, Schools

On May 11th 2016, student loan interest rates were announced for the 2016-17 academic year (the lowest rates we’ve seen in a decade). As of July 1st these rates apply to any new student loans you take out and will be fixed over the life of those loans. Loan types...