Blog posts tagged with "student insurance"

  • Helping Your Student to Deal with Identity Theft
    September 23, 2010

    When I learned recently that identity theft is one of the fastest-growing crimes in the U.S., I decided to visit the U.S. Department of Justice Web site to learn more.

    I expected to see the usual: tips to reduce or minimize the risk of becoming an identity theft victim, and suggestions on what to do if such an unfortunate fraud were to actually happen.

    What I didn’t expect was to read a bit of Shakespeare. Yet, there it was on the top of the fraud section home page, a line that the famous bard wrote in Act III, Scene 3 of Othello:

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  • The Research Behind Our Tuition Insurance Offer
    June 17, 2010

    In my most recent column, published on May 26, I made the case for the purchase of tuition insurance, which thanks to our partnership with GradGuard, a service of Next Generation Insurance, Inc., is now available as an embedded benefit in College Parents of America membership.

    In that column, I touched on the research our organization did as we put together this benefit and I would like to review more of our analysis with you today.

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  • The Case for Tuition Insurance
    May 26, 2010

    Everyone knows that college is expensive. Yet very few people know that the cost of college can be insured.

    The high cost of college has been building for decades. Withering subsidies at the state level are causing public universities to raise the sticker prices they charge students. Private colleges are also charging more, as their endowment funds still reel from the 2008 financial meltdown and continuing market uncertainty.

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  • This Year’s Health Insurance Coverage Gap
    May 13, 2010

    Thanks to the passage of health care reform, a record number of 3.2M college students will have the ability to remain on – or re-enroll in – their parent’s health care plan when they graduate this Spring.

    Without question, this is a positive development for both parents and graduating college students. However, there are many nuances to the coverage provisions, according to Bill Suneson, president, Next Generation Insurance (NGI) Group, which operates GradGuard.com a specialist in “right-fit” insurance for college students and insurance for new graduates.

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  • Examining the Health Coverage “Gap”
    April 22, 2010

    In previous years, around this time in April, I’ve communicated to college parents about the “gap” that a graduating senior, or student taking a year off from school, would likely face in his or her health insurance, between the time of college graduation or end of classes, and landing that first job or going back to school full time.

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