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Student Loan Tip: Do cosignors need life insurance to cover your student loans?

Student Loan Tip: Do cosignors need life insurance to cover your student loans?

Aug 6, 2019 | Article, Cost of College, Financial Literacy, Paying for College, student loans

According to a recent article by Policy Genius, “The cost of college has skyrocketed over the last decade, resulting in $1.4 trillion of outstanding student loan debt. But college grads aren’t the only ones on the hook for their balances. Per student debt...

What Type of Insurance Does Your College Student Need?

Aug 3, 2019 | Article, Financial Literacy, Insurance

Kimberly Schwind wrote recently an article in the Inquirer titled What Type of Insurance Does Your College Kid Need. Her tips and insights are useful and something we summarize here for our college parents audience below. Indeed, the data from the National Center for...
Insuring Your Student

Insuring Your Student

Feb 27, 2019 | Article, Cost of College, Insurance, Living Independently, student loans, Student Success

The Importance of Insurance for Your Student As your baby birds begin to leave the nest, there are always a few things that us college parents are concerned about. Did I teach them enough? Can they really do their own laundry? Do they even know how to make rice? Take...
Student Loan Tip: Do cosignors need life insurance to cover your student loans?

Do cosignors need life insurance to cover your student loans?

Jun 21, 2018 | Article, Cost of College, Financial Literacy, Paying for College, student loans

According to a recent article by Policy Genius, “The cost of college has skyrocketed over the last decade, resulting in $1.4 trillion of outstanding student loan debt. But college grads aren’t the only ones on the hook for their balances. Per student debt...
State Insurance Commissioners Recommend Renters Insurance for College Students

State Insurance Commissioners Recommend Renters Insurance for College Students

Oct 12, 2016 | Article, Campus Safety, Completing, Financial Literacy, Insurance, Living Independently, Preparing, Research & Advocacy, Transitioning

Part of our work at College Parents of America is to complete research work that helped identify trends important to college families. This summer our interns helped identify a trend where a growing number of state insurance commissioners recommend the purchase of...
Parents: College Students Need Renters Insurance & it Can Help You Too

Parents: College Students Need Renters Insurance & it Can Help You Too

Aug 14, 2016 | Article, Campus Safety, Completing, Financial Literacy, First Weeks of College, Preparing, Transitioning

College students are heading back to school, many with the help of their parents who have invested thousands of dollars in laptops, smartphones, bicycles and textbooks on students’ packing lists.  Consider this – how will your student and family replace these...

As Move-in Approaches, a Reminder from the NAIC about Student Insurance Needs

May 29, 2016 | Article, Preparing, Transitioning

If you are like many families, May and June bring a critical time period when students select their housing preferences.  Student move-in begins in early August at some colleges (and is rapidly approaching elsewhere). Many more students are moving into apartments or...

Do College Students Need Renters Insurance or Does a Homeowners Policy Provide the Right Coverage?

Sep 6, 2013 | Article, Completing, Preparing, Transitioning

Sep. 6, 2013 – BOSTON — College students are heading back to school this month and they’re bringing a lot of stuff with them. In 2012, the average student spent $907.22 on back to college shopping*.  With laptops, smartphones, bicycles and textbooks on...

Helping Your Student to Deal with Identity Theft

Sep 23, 2010 | Article, Preparing, Research & Advocacy

When I learned recently that identity theft is one of the fastest-growing crimes in the U.S., I decided to visit the U.S. Department of Justice Web site to learn more.I expected to see the usual: tips to reduce or minimize the risk of becoming an identity theft...
The Initial Research Behind Our Tuition Insurance Offer

The Initial Research Behind Our Tuition Insurance Offer

Jun 17, 2010 | Article, Research & Advocacy, Transitioning

In 2010, College Parents of America launched the first nationally available form of tuition insurance for college students and their families.  In partnership with GradGuard, a service of Next Generation Insurance Group LLC, we began offering tuition refund insurance...
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