Parliament will resume on October 16, when the Senate will consider the governments proposed changes to higher education. There has been a lot of discussion about many of the changes, but little about the impact of the proposed change to HELP repayments. Here are five things Senators should know. 1. The HELP repayment threshold will…
Sian Griffiths Drew Povey, star of the reality TV series, has tripled the GCSE pass rate at Harrop Fold SchoolJOHN CATT EDUCATIONAL He was the naughtiest boy at school and could easily have gone off the rails. But Drew Povey, the head teacher who stars in the reality TV series Educating Greater Manchester, has transformed…
The number of people seeking help for debt in Cornwall is on the rise with more households struggling to pay basic bills such as water and council tax. Cornwall Citizens Advice Bureau (CAB) said that debt was the single biggest issue that people go to it for advice for, with 34 per cent of all…
Tesla ( TSLA ) Chief Executive Elon Musk and President Trump disagree on climate change, but both businessmen say Puerto Rico needs a lot of help amid Hurricane Maria’s devastation of the island territory. Musk, also the CEO of SpaceX, has offered to come to Puerto Rico’s rescue with solar-energy technology, via Tesla’s Solar City unit.…
FIVE million consumers are struggling to pay their credit card debts, the chief of the City watchdog has warned. Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) boss Andrew Bailey slammed lenders for not doing enough to help those customers “with persistent credit debt.” Getty – Contributor Five million people are struggling to deal with their credit card debt…
MANILA – Finance Secretary Carlos Dominguez is calling on the Land Bank of the Philippines and the Government Service Insurance System to come up with a refinancing program for public school teachers who are saddled with debt, his office said Thursday. The “easy to pay, low interest” scheme is needed after a recent report by…
THOUSAND OAKS, Calif., Oct. 4, 2017 /PRNewswire/ — In what has been a record-setting month, LoanGifting welcomes over 100,000 new student loan debtors to its crowdfunding website in September alone. What appears to be: “The Future of Student Debt Relief,” LoanGifting has combined the power of crowdfunding and employee sponsored Student LoanBenefitsTM. LoanGifting could easily attract…
For bondholders sitting on Puerto Rican debt, Hurricane Maria may have come just when they needed it, just as a yearslong battle over the fate of the islands financial future was beginning to turn against them. Or, depending on how the politics shake out, they could see their entire bet go south. Ahead of Maria,…
Democrats are urging the White House and Congress to use the rebuilding of Puerto Rico after Hurricane Maria to address the U.S. territorys broader debt crisis. Senator Chuck Schumer, the partys leader in the Senate, said Puerto Rico needs a fair solution to deal with the $74 billion in debt that it was saddled with…
“This is not something a president should be doing or can do,” said Larry McDonald, head of the U.S. macro strategies at ACG Analytics. “It’s just noise, and it’s pretty far removed from reality.” “This is not a dictatorship. We have bankruptcy judges and the rule of law,” McDonald said. “But it is scaring the…