A new report says slashing the income threshold at which student debts need to be repaid could raise $500 million in a year. The Grattan Institute report recommends reducing the repayment threshold from $54,126 to $42,000 to help reign in rising student loan debts under the current Higher Education Loan Plan (HELP). Grattan Institute…
DetailsPrudential Retirement on Monday said it is helping its clients employees pay down student loan debt while also building a retirement nest egg, rather than prioritizing one goal over the other. Prudential Retirement Insurance and Annuity Co. has teamed with Student Loan Genius to enable employers to reward employees for paying off their student loan…
DetailsBecton Dickinson: A Force to Be Reckoned With (Part 2 of 6) Behind Becton Dickinsons Strategic Restructuring and Business Consolidation By Sarah Collins Mar 28, 2016 1:14 pm EDT Overview The US medical device industry has been undergoing a disruptive change. Margins are shrinking, and competition is intensifying. To better position itself amid such…
DetailsUpdated March 27, 2016 10:06 p.m. ET More young workers are getting help paying off their student loans from an unlikely source: their employers. By making student-loan payments part of a benefits package, a handful of companies are betting the perk will be a good recruiting and retention tool, considering the bulk of bachelors degree…
DetailsBy Associated Press Published: 04:58 EST, 29 March 2016 | Updated: 04:58 EST, 29 March 2016 SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) Retail giant Walmart won a legal victory on Monday in a fight over tax revenue with the government of Puerto Rico. A federal judge in the U.S. island territory found that a modified tangible-property…
DetailsSeafarers can collect money claims from insolvent firms March 28, 2016 10:02 pm by PERSIDA ACOSTA [embedded content] Tweet Persida Acosta Dear PAO,I am planning to file a case for non-payment of disability benefits…
DetailsThe Ministry of Economy said it finished an assessment on the implementation of corporate governance principles and private management in state-owned enterprises (SOEs) under the Government Decision 109/2011. Out of the 114 companies that were analyzed, only 11 percent have fully implemented the corporate governance. This process was started in another 18 percent of the…
DetailsCrime Netherlands Top Stories Tennis coachs gambling debts led to murder, say poker players Tennis coach Mark de J. and murdered business man Koen Everink were fighting over De J.s gambling debt. De J. is suspected in Everinks murder. The tennis coach has thousands of euros in gambling debt, accrued by playing poker. Including 80…
DetailsWood pellets are made to be burned. It turns out a Louisiana facility that was built to make the pieces for power plants is doing the same to municipal-bond investors. Invesco Ltd., Waddell & Reed Financial Inc. and AllianceBernstein Holding LP are among buyers left in limbo after Louisiana Pellets Inc., a subsidiary of the…
DetailsAbengoa SA won support from creditors to allow more time to approve a 9.4 billion-euro ($10.5 billion) debt restructuring and avoid insolvency. More than 75 percent of the companys lenders agreed to continue talks for as much as seven months, Seville-based Abengoa said in a regulatory filing Monday. The support from creditors is higher than…
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