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velvetpage ([personal profile] velvetpage) wrote2005-08-23 07:37 pm

My letter

My letter about student debt hampering an entire generation? It will be in the paper tomorrow morning. :)

[identity profile] velvetpage.livejournal.com 2005-08-24 10:59 am (UTC)(link)
We have a Registered Education Savings Plan through Canadian Scholarship Trust Foundation. Everything we put into it up to $4000 a year is matched by the government, so having it as a registered plan literally doubles our savings. It has downsides, though. If she chooses not to go back to any kind of post-secondary program after the first year, we'll lose the rest of the money or have to roll it over to someone else.

We've also go a whole-life plan going for her, which we're hoping might be enough when she's twenty-five or so to provide most of the down payment on a house or some such.

[identity profile] kesmun.livejournal.com 2005-08-24 11:04 am (UTC)(link)
Sounds like you're on the right track. Elizabeth is lucky to have you as parents.