Top 5 Ways to Pay for School + MORE Apr 3rd

Looking into a post-secondary education for the first time can be pretty overwhelming, and figuring out how you’ll pay for it all can add extra stress. To help, here are five options to keep in mind while going through the process.

TIP: Apply for everything you qualify for! Check scholarshipscanada.com and yconic.com.

TIP: Find out if your parents are helping you out. They may have an RESP or other savings.
Figure out how much you need to pay for school with the RBC Student Budget Calculator

TIP: Learn more at canlearn.ca.

TIP: Look for job sites catered to students and new grads such as TalentEgg and jobpostings.ca.

TIP: Check out how the RBC Student Line of Credit could help you.
For year-round student finance tips, check out the RBC Student Solutions Hub.
 
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Looking into a post-secondary education for the first time can be pretty overwhelming, and figuring out how you’ll pay for it all can add extra stress. To help, here are five options to keep in mind while going through the process.

TIP: Apply for everything you qualify for! Check scholarshipscanada.com and yconic.com.

TIP: Find out if your parents are helping you out. They may have an RESP or other savings.
Figure out how much you need to pay for school with the RBC Student Budget Calculator

TIP: Learn more at canlearn.ca.

TIP: Look for job sites catered to students and new grads such as TalentEgg and jobpostings.ca.

TIP: Check out how the RBC Student Line of Credit could help you.
For year-round student finance tips, check out the RBC Student Solutions Hub.
 
® / ™ Trademark(s) of Royal Bank of Canada.
Personal lending products are provided by Royal Bank of Canada and are subject to its standard lending criteria. Some conditions and restrictions apply.
The post Top 5 Ways to Pay for School appeared first on Macleans…

TORONTO _ Hudson’s Bay Co. is the latest Canadian company to be hit with a data breach, saying that customer payment card information may have been stolen from shoppers at certain Saks Fifth Avenue, Saks Off Fifth and Lord & Taylor stores in North America.
A spokesperson for retailer would not comment on whether any specific Canadian locations were affected, but did say there is no indication the breach affects any of HBC’s other digital platforms, Hudson’s Bay stores or Home Outfitters locations.
HBC released little information on the breach itself on Sunday, but a New York-based cybersecurity firm said it had analyzed the available data and found that information from five-million credit cards had been compromised.
Gemini Advisory LLC said in a report that the information was stolen from 83 Saks Fifth Avenue or Saks Off Fifth stores, and from all Lord & Taylor locations.
The firm found that three Canadian Saks locations were exposed to the breach: Sherway Gardens in Toronto, Bramalea City Centre in Brampton, Ont…

Q: Our 19-year-old son has been accepted into an aviation program. The cost of the program is $100,000. Government Student Loan funding is not enough to cover the program cost, therefore we looked into a student line of credit. Unfortunately, a pilot was not listed as a profession that would get approval for a $100,000 student line of credit; the only option was to use our own personal line of credit.
In order to protect ourselves financially in case something happens to our son, I would like to purchase life insurance but I’m not sure what type of life insurance and if disability insurance is also needed. Once his debit is paid off I would like to see him continue with the life insurance policy so he has coverage if he decides to start a family. Would he be able to increase the policy coverage? Or is it in his best financial interest to incorporate future costs now?
—Diana
A: Diana, this is a great question. This is a good example of life insurance protecting a financial risk, which is one of the main purposes of life insurance…

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