I understand that me investing in a 529 Plan can impact my kid's financial aid package. What I'm trying to get a handle on is just how important this could be. By that I mean is the potential payoff in financial aid so prodigious that I should forgo the 529 plan?

When I went to state college back in the Eighties I wasn't eligible for financial aid (maybe I filled out the forms wrong because we weren't that affluent of a family). Only one of my friends that I know of received grant money and from what I remember it wasn't substantial. For an average middle class family does financial aid to a state school typically subtract the thinnest of slivers from a kid's college bill or a big bite?

Brian

I think it does. the policy varies from one place to another. Though I can tell you the details because I have no primary idea about it. Though from the looks of it I can say it will be pretty hard.

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In addition to the primary sources of financial aid (loans and scholarships), other kinds of aid are available to many students. These other types of aid fall into eight broad categories:
1. Free Scholarship Lotteries
2. Federal and State Government Aid
3. College-Controlled Aid
4. Student Profile-Based Aid
5. Aid for Graduate and Professional School
6. Aid for Elementary and Secondary School
7. Aid for Specific Activities
8. Innovative Programs

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