Be Money Smart

Calling all borrowers, students, and parents to join us in learning how the Office of Federal Student Aid (FSA), a division of the U.S. Department of Education, can help you and how it has adjusted to consider the impacts of Covid-19 on borrowers.

Financial Aid

The federal deadline to submit the FAFSA is June 30 of this year, but college and state deadlines are often much sooner.

The following state-sponsored programs are only available to students attending community colleges, technical colleges and universities in Texas. They cannot be used out-of-state.

Provides information and resources on saving for college, financial education, retirement planning, and personal finance.

Learn tips and strategies on how to make more informed financial decisions around managing money, saving and paying for higher education, and repaying student loan debt.

For this episode, we spoke with Aaron Satyanarayana, an undergraduate student, about how he manages money while working towards graduation. This episode discusses tips and tools to help make good decisions around paying for college and managing money while enrolled as a student.

During the second episode in this series, we met with Charmain Bogue, Executive Director of Education Service for the Veterans Benefits Administration, to discuss tools to help veterans, servicemembers, and their qualified family members with making decisions about financing their education and selecting an educational institution to attend.

For the third and final episode of this series, we spoke with Bridget Peters, a family medicine resident, about tips and best practices for managing money and postgraduate student loan debt as a young professional.

Follow the link to a webinar sponsored by consumerfinance.gov