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Warner, Thune, Malliotakis & Peters Introduce Legislation to Address Student Debt Crisis

WASHINGTON – Today, U.S. Sens. Mark R. Warner (D-VA) and John Thune (R-SD), alongside U.S. Reps. Nicole Malliotakis (R-NY-11) and Scott Peters (D-CA-50), introduced the Employer Participation in Repayment Act

Warner, Thune, Peters & Malliotakis Introduce Legislation to Address Student Debt Crisis

WASHINGTON – Today, U.S. Sens. Mark R. Warner (D-VA) and John Thune (R-SD), alongside U.S. Reps. Scott Peters (CA-50) and Nicole Malliotakis (NY-11) introduced the Employer Participation in Repayment Act.

How Employers Can Help Employees With Their Student Debt

In this episode, Gene Marks and Mick MacLaverty, a student loan expert, CEO, and co-founder of Highway Benefits, discuss the advantages of offering student loan repayment as a benefit at your company.

Student loan debt is a massive, $1.7T problem that requires many solutions that all need to succeed in order to bring it under control. Offering student loan repayment (SLR) as an employee benefit is one of those solutions, but far from the only one.

Mick MacLaverty

CEO at Highway Benefits

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Need Help Paying Your Student Loans? Ask Your Boss

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Student Loan Payment Pause to End

The student loan payment pause is coming to a halt on a specific date soon. As part of the debt-ceiling bill, borrowers must resume interest payments 60 days after June 30. NTD has tips on what to do.

Highway Benefits CEO Talks Program Aimed at Helping Employees Repay Student Loans

Highway Benefits CEO Talks Program Aimed at Helping Employees Repay Student Loans

Student Loans 2023: What Happens if You Don’t Keep Up With Your Payments?

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Students Loans 2023: Experts Give Their 6 Top Tips for Paying Down Debt Quickly

After being suspended for three years, the student loan payment pause has been extended by the Biden administration through June 2023. However, since the one-time student debt relief program is still...

Most Americans support Biden's student loan forgiveness plan, survey says

Most Americans (62%) said they support federal student loan forgiveness and 18% said they opposed the plan, according to a recent Newsweek survey.

Highway Benefits Raises $3.1M To Enable Employers to Offer Tax-Free Student Loan Assistance as a Benefit

When Will Student Loan Payments Resume?

After a year of false starts, borrowers will soon be out of loan limbo and on the hook once again

Startups Want to Cash In on the US Student Debt Crisis

Companies like SoFi and Chipper offer to help people manage their college loans. But they’re not likely to fix the flawed economics of education.

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3 things to expect for student loans in 2025: what the election results mean for student loans

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