After Supreme Court Rulings, Answering Reader Questions About Paying for College

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

63% : For the first time in three years, student loan repayment is about to resume after being paused at the start of the pandemic, and Tara created a guide to the restart here.
52% : These accounts -- which are run by states and allow money to both grow tax-free and be withdrawn free of tax as long as the money is used to pay for qualified expenses -- are usually the best way to save for a child's higher education.
49% :Private colleges offer the merit aid that we discussed above, and, if you receive a lot of it, an out-of-state private school could cost less than an in-state public one.
36% : And last week, the Biden administration vowed to try a new legal tactic for widespread student debt cancellation, using a different law from the one its failed effort relied on.

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