Debt-Management Perspectives

USA Funds University Offers Credit-Card-Counseling Hints
As the season for holiday spending approaches, USA Funds^® University offers tips that financial-aid administrators can share with students when counseling them about credit-card use. Read more.

USA Funds Life Skills Helps Students Teach Peers About Budgeting, Credit Cards
At the University of Hawaii at Manoa, students can learn budgeting and credit-card tips from their peers in special workshops based on USA Funds Life Skills^®. Learn more.

USA Funds Debt Manager User Group Gives Tips, Provides Input
From sending a USA Funds brochure to distributing holiday cards with financial-aid-office information, users of USA Funds Debt Manager^® recently shared their best practices for reaching education-loan borrowers with loan-repayment information. Read more.

USA Funds Update

Girls Focus on Science, Math, Technology With Support of USA Funds
A grant from USA Funds is turning girls’ attention to science, math and technology through Girls Incorporated of Indianapolis. Read more.

Operations Bulletin

Lenders Should Continue to Use Current Consolidation Application
The current Federal Consolidation Loan Application and Promissory Note and the accompanying common loan-consolidation forms are scheduled to expire today, Oct. 31, 2006. The U.S. Department of Education has confirmed that the expiration date of the forms will be extended until revised forms are approved and distributed. Lenders may continue to use existing forms until the publication of revised forms. You will need Adobe Acrobat Reader to access the application and promissory note from the USA Funds Web site.