Among recommendations from the White House Task Force on Middle-Class Working Families (Treasury Department) here are some proposals:
- 529 plans getting greater availability of age-based index funds that shed equities and add fixed-income assets as beneficiary approaches college
- eliminating a “home-state bias” for fee and state tax assessments which currently force families to use funds offered in their home state rather than in others
- put limits on balances on a per-beneficiary bases rather than on state-by-state basis
- Treasury should collect data from surveys re 529 plan participation and investments
- Strengthen compliance and monitoring of Section 529 accounts and disbursements
- Simplify the Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA) which currently has 153 questions, some having no impact on student aid – over 1MM eligible students fail to fill out this currently complex form
- Tailoring the form to individual students
- Allowing students to electronically retrieve their tax info from the IRS and enter it into the online FAFSA
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