Student loan debt: Why employers may want to help payoff college loans
Employers eager to recruit and retain skilled workers in a tight labor
market have about 1.34 trillion reasons to expand their benefits
package to include assistance in helping employees repay their
student loans.
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That's the mountain of student loan debt being carried on the
financial shoulders of 44 million Americans. And no surprise, the
bulk of those would indeed love for the boss to kick in and help pay
it back.
More than 80 percent of workers with student loans surveyed by
IonTuition said they would like to work for a company that provides
a student loan repayment benefit. IonTuition, a fintech company
focused on services to help borrowers manage their repayments,
mostly surveyed millennials.