Category: education

How To Make Sure You Get Free Money For Your Child’s Education.

Kiplingers, one of my favorite personal finance sites & magazine, has a great article up for parents with advice on making sure you can get the free money you might be entitled to for your child’s education. From dealing with the FAFSA (Free Application for Federal Student Aid) application to to when to file your taxes, the article has great tips for making sure you get some of the available funds. A few of the most important include:

Don’t fail to list all household members on the application. This includes step children and even unborn babies – anyone who can be claimed as a dependent.

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By David

Free Suze Orman Book Download.

If you have seen her on television and have always wanted to see what Suze Orman was all about, this is your chance to do it for free! Right now until 11:59 p.m. CT on Thursday, January 15, her newest book “Suze Orman’s 2009 Action Plan” is available as a free PDF download over at Oprah.com. I have read several of her books in the past (have not read this one yet), and while I don’t agree with everything that she says, most of her advice is spot-on. I imagine this book will be more of the same, and if you are looking for a new plan in 2009, you might want to give this download a shot. Enjoy!

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By David

Mark Your Calendar: Kiplinger Free Financial Advice Days.

As they do every year, Kiplinger’s is again partnering with the National Association of Personal Financial Advisors (NAPFA) to provide 2 full days of free financial advice for anyone who wants it. This year, the days are Tuesday, January 13, and Friday, January 30, from 9am – 6pm EST, and you can either call 1-888-919-2345 to speak to an advisor or ask your question in an online forum. Is there anything better in these times than being able to ask a professional about your financial issue? Be sure to mark you calendar and don’t forget to take advantage of this free financial advice!

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By David

Got Financial Questions? Ask The M-Network!

Today is the start of a new feature from all of us at the M-Network which is called “Ask The M-Network“. This new feature will allow (and encourage, hopefully) our readers to submit personal finance questions to any of the M-Network members using our contact forms. (Here is my contact form) Your question will be answered by several M-Network members behind the scenes and then published within a few days as a post on the blog where you submitted the question. So you ask a question via my contact form, I talk it over with the other members, and I post the answer here a few days later…Pretty cool, right?

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By David

Comparing A 529 Plan And An Education Savings Account (ESA).

Although we do not have children yet, I know that when we do we will start putting money away for college right away. However, there are different ways of doing this – and luckily my a newsletter from TRowePrice showed up to tell me some of the differences between a typical 529 plan and an ESA. While they are both to be used to save for future education costs, there are some differences that could make you choose one over the other. Let’s take a look…

Typical 529 Plan:

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Contribution limit is way more lenient, allowing between $100,000 and $350,000 per beneficiary, depending on the state.

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