During Financial Literacy Month in April, Mapping Your Future encourages you to use its financial literacy tools and share the tools and resources with your students:
- The 12-Step Guide to Financial Success
- Website content, including the Manage your money page
- Mapping Your Future offers several student loan and money management calculators:
- Budget Calculator: Allows students to create a monthly budget, reminding them of various expenses including transportation expenses, grocery items, and miscellaneous expenses
- Income-Based Repayment Calculator: Allows borrowers to estimate monthly payment amount under the income-based repayment plan
- Student Loan Debt/Salary Wizard:
- Helps students and parents determine how much salary is needed to support the payments on current and future student loan debt and how much the student can borrow based on future expected earnings.
- Estimates standard repayment for student loans
- Student Loan Repayment Calculator: Allows borrowers to estimate payments on federal student loans, as well as determine how much salary is needed to support student loan debt
- The Mapping Your Future newsletters include articles on default prevention and/or student loans and money management. You can run some of the articles in your own publications and communications for students and borrowers, while others provide you with information about new tactics and tools. Individuals can subscribe at https://mappingyourfuture.org/newsroom/subscribe/
Contact the Mapping Your Future staff at feedback@mappingyourfuture.org or (800) 374-4072 with any questions.
