Education News – Grace Smith
“The annual 529 Plan Awareness Survey from financial services firm Edward Jones has found that 66% of Americans don’t know much about 529 plans and how they apply to saving for college costs. Now in its fourth year of monitoring college savings awareness, the Edward Jones questionnaire showed that only 34% of Americans could identify a 529 plan as a college savings tool from among four potential options, which is up from 30% in 2014…The report says that paying for college is increasingly difficult and that families need to know what their options are…”(more)