At Ohio 529, CollegeAdvantage, we believe that all types of savings are critical for your family’s overall financial success, 
especially as families transition from the military to a civilian life. This is why we are a proud supporter of the 2024 Veterans Saves Week, which runs from Monday, Nov. 11 – Friday, Nov. 15.
Veterans Save Week, formerly Military Saves Week, is a program hosted by America Saves. Since 2007, America Saves has motivated and encouraged individuals and households to develop good saving habits and build a better financial future. America Saves is an organization, managed by the Consumer Federation of America (CFA) and dedicated to helping individuals save money, reduce household debt, and build wealth.
Participants will be encouraged to take the Veterans Saves Pledge to set short-term savings goals, like building an emergency fund, and long-term goals, like saving for retirement or their children’s future education. Additionally, participants can learn techniques on how to boost their financial education to shape their savings strategies and how best to save as a family.
Veterans Saves Week will focus on a different theme each day. The schedule is:
Day One — Choosing the right financial institution
Day Two — Saving for competing priorities
Day Three — All about housing
Day Four —Navigating military to civilian employment financial transition
In partnership with Veterans Saves, Veterans Benefits Banking will offer free financial counseling for veterans as their families.
Veterans Saves also provides a list of organizations that offer emergency assistance and crisis support to veterans and their loved ones.
Like all participating organizations, Ohio 529 encourages you and your family to set a financial goal together, create a plan to achieve it, and then save automatically When you save as a family and everyone is on board the budgeting plan, there are no limits to what you can achieve together. Ohio 529 has some ideas how you can teach your children about money and saving.
If one of your long-term savings goals is paying for your children’s education or career training after high school, visit Ohio 529, CollegeAdvantage, to learn more about the benefits of saving in a 529 plan. These include tax benefits, the fact that you can save in Ohio’s 529 Plan and use those funds tax-free to pay for qualified higher education expenses at four-year colleges and universities, two-year community colleges, trade, technical or vocational schools, and a certificate programs that have a Federal School Code on the Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA). 529 plans can also be to pay for certain costs at apprenticeship programs registered with the Secretary of Labor’s National Apprenticeships Act. Here’s how you can use your GI Bill in conjunction with a 529 account.
Learn, plan, and start for as little as $25 today at CollegeAdvantage.
