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February Military Scholarships for Service Members, Veterans, Spouses and Kids


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This post is part of my ongoing Military Scholarships series. As long as you’re stuck in the house hiding from the cold, you should be applying for scholarships! As with any other scholarship resource, please verify eligibility requirements, application processes, and due dates. While we do our best to ensure that this listing remains up-to-date,… | Read More…

November Military Scholarships for Service Members, Veterans, Spouses and Kids


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This post is part of The Biggest List of Military Scholarships. November is when scholarship season starts picking up, and then it starts getting crashingly busy 🙂 Because we have no other things to do from December to April…LOL. Of particular note is that several of this month’s scholarships are only for the military members/veterans… | Read More…

October Military Scholarships for Service Members, Veterans, Spouses and Kids


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This post is part of my ongoing Military Scholarships series. October is still part of the slow season for due dates, but there are scholarships opening up every day. Be sure to check back! Rees Scholarship Foundation – Veterans Program Deadline: 1 October 2020 Description: Must be a veteran enrolled in an Heating, Ventilations, Air… | Read More…

Legal Documents for Young Adults: What You Need To Have


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It’s that time of year! Young adults all over the country are moving on to the next step of their lives. It might be a job, or it might be college. We moved one two weeks ago, I have one moving next week, and another one moving in about a month. This is a good… | Read More…

Where Do Military Kids Get In-State Tuition?


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A perennially hot topic is “can my military kid get in-state tuition?”  There is a ton of mis-information out there.  Be sure you have the right information before you begin the college search and start deciding which schools you can afford. I am deeply invested in this question because I have four college-age children.  My… | Read More…

Buying or Selling, BookScouter Will Help You Get The Best Price for Your Books


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Colleges are ramping up for the fall semester (whatever that is going to look like), and students are scrambling to find the right textbooks at the right price. Right now is exactly the right time to sell those books back, get top value, and move that extra weight out of your lives. Alternately, if you’re… | Read More…

How To Get A GI Bill Certificate of Eligibility


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The Department of Veterans Affairs educational programs are a huge thing for military members, and being able to transfer the Post 9/11 GI Bill makes it an even bigger benefit. While it’s great, it can also be intimidating and overwhelming. The first step is to get a Certificate of Eligibility, which also called applying to… | Read More…

College Shopping? Be Sure To Do All The Math


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It’s August, and college tuition bills have been coming due all month. I am often surprised when people tell me, “I didn’t know how much the bill would be.” I’m such an over-planner that this seems foreign to me, but there are quite a few ways that it happens. I want you to know that… | Read More…

Everything About Tricare Young Adult


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One of the trickiest parts of having young adult children is making sure that they have access to health insurance. While the Affordable Care Act (ACA) mandated that insurance companies extend children’s coverage to age 26, that mandate doesn’t apply to Tricare because technically Tricare isn’t insurance. And federal law prohibits kids from remaining on… | Read More…

My Kid Saved At Least $100 On Her Textbooks In Less Than 15 Minutes


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Yesterday, I had a proud parenting moment. One of my kids texted me the night before and said, “I got my book list. Can you help me find the best prices?” She’s been pretty good about renting and buying used and getting some on Amazon, but I hadn’t felt that we’d put forth our best… | Read More…

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