Start Planning for College: Today is National 529 Day, Get Free Money

For many working parents and single moms, our biggest dream is that our children will graduate from college. Our dreams sometimes get overshadowed by our fears about how we’re going to pay for it.

But money is there for college. We just need to make sure to have our kids apply for it and also get our own savings going.

Today is National 529 Day. There is a special savings account called the 529 Savings Plan which is designed to help parents pay for college.

ScholarShare is offering a special match if you open an account today. You start an account for $50 and they match it.

https://www.scholarshare.com/buzz/you-start-it.shtml

There are many options about paying for college and soon we’ll be sharing more information about how to get financial aid. But we wanted to share this with you today since its basically free money for college. It all adds up!

More Details: 529 College Saving Guide

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Alma V. Marquez

Alma V. Marquez

Alma V. Marquez is the founder of LaComadre.org and is the founder and CEO of Del Sol Group, a communications and public affairs firm focusing on Strategy, Outreach and Leadership in Education, Voter and Civic Engagement. She specializes in parent education, politics and community organizing. She is a proud product of California public schools. She is a graduate of Huntington Park High School in Southeast LA. She also completed her all of credit recovery classes at Maxine Waters Occupational Center in Watts in order to graduate from high school. She attended East LA College and transferred to Occidental College where she earned a Bachelor's degree in English and Comparative Literary Students and Politics. She earned a Master of Arts Degree in Urban Planning at UCLA. Her daughter is a junior in a charter school, chartered by LAUSD. She decided to start the LA Comadre blog because she wanted to create a platform for Latinas and education.

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