Student Loan - ELM Resources Celebrates Record Year and Elects New Board Members at 2006 Annual Member Conference

ELM Resources Celebrates Record Year and Elects New Board Members at 2006 Annual Member Conference
OAKLAND, Calif.----April 12, 2006--ELM Resources, the nation's only open and neutral education loan data exchange and disbursement system, held its annual Member Conference in Orlando, FL on March 30 and 31, 2006.

Congress improves law on college savings plans
Saving for college just got a little bit easier, sort of. In the same fell swoop with which Congress recently lopped billions of dollars off federal college-loan programs it also made some improvements to the tax-exempt funds known as 529 plans.

Bridging the dollar gap
To help pay for her college education, Thanh Phuong Nguyen, a sophomore at Washington University in St. Louis, delivers sobering news about paying for college to applicants. On behalf of the Scholarship Foundation of St. Louis, she visits high schools to warn teenagers against expecting financial aid to cover all of their college costs. (In fact, only about half of students get any kind of grant

DA: Debts led son to kill father, injure mother
Tens of thousands of dollars in debt led a former Rochester college student to attack his parents while they slept in their Delmar home. That's according to court documents filed by the Albany County District Attorney's Office in the murder case of Christopher Porco.

State tops U.S. in students denied aid after drug offense
More than 31,000 California college students forfeited their shot at federal financial aid because of a past drug conviction, newly released records show.