Student Loan Borrowers in PSLF – take notice
A few months ago, we wrote an article about the potential demise of the federal student loan benefit program called Public Student Loan Forgiveness (PSLF). We are here to share that … Read more »
The Latest Updates on the Higher Education Act
As of the first week of March 2018, the Senate’s Health, Education & Labor Committee has held eight hearings to help move along the Higher Education Act’s (HEA) reauthorization. We are still a bit of time away from a potential … Read more »
April’s Financial Literacy Month Wrap Up
As April 2016 and #FinancialLiteracyMonth comes to a close, HEAG shared an article for Financial Aid Professionals with information they can place on their own school social media and websites as it pertains to college students and the knowledge they … Read more »
April is Financial Literacy Month
HEAG will be posting resources and news throughout the month of April for Financial Literacy Month. From that link, you can gain easy access to online worksheets such as calculating your own net worth to figuring out 
your most … Read more »
Twitter Recap — April 4th – April 8th, 2016
We share industry news and stories on Twitter throughout the week at @HEAG_INC. Here is a recap of last week’s tweets, focusing on topics of Title IV financial aid and higher education.
4/4/16 – From #PLUSloan interest rate … Read more »
Battle Wages On Over Higher Education Spending In the FY17 Budget
On March 23rd, 2016, the House Budget Committee (HBC) released more detail surrounding spending cuts on some key higher education programs. There remains a dichotomy between the Republican controlled Congress and the Democratic White House as they both … Read more »
Peeling Back the Layers of President Obama’s Proposed Budget for 2017 – Part Three
March 10th, 2016
In Part One of a three-part blog series, we wrote about the tuition-free, community college proposal President Obama is looking for in his 2017 budget. In Part Two, we took a look at the Pell grant overhaul … Read more »
Peeling Back the Layers of President Obama’s Proposed Budget for 2017 – Part Two
March 9th, 2016
In Part One of a three-part blog series, we analyzed President Obama’s community college initiatives in full detail which included information on his grand idea of tuition free, public education through the America’s College Promise Act of … Read more »
Peeling Back the Layers of President Obama’s Proposed Budget for 2017 – Part One
March 8th, 2016
On February 9th, 2016, President Obama unveiled fiscal year 2017 plans to the tune of a $4.2 trillion spending package, with Education taking up $69.4 billion of that figure overall (an increase of 1.3 billion … Read more »