Friday 2 August 2013

Financial Planning For Higher Education

The cost of almost everything has been on a constant rise during the last 10 years and higher education is not an exception to it. This situation has worried many parents who would like to see their children pursue their higher education. Securing the cost of higher education all at once is utterly impossible for many families in Canada, this is why the government has initiated many financial assistance programs as well as approved a number of beneficial programs that can help many families to send their children to university.

Registered Education Saving Plans (RESP) is a government registered program that is designed to help parents and guardians to financially prepare for the higher education of their children. To enroll a child in this program, the contributor would first require the social's insurance number of the child and have a valid social insurance number themselves in order to register the Plan with CRA. Once the contributor has the social insurance number the next step would be find a suitable RESP provider. Nearly 400,000 children got enrolled in the Heritage RESP. You can contribute every month, once a year, once in five years, once in 10 years or in one single deposit.

Because the contributions are invested in low risk investments, the success of the Plan the money will be there when you need it. Heritage Education Funds Inc. has been successfully helping families in Canada for almost 50 years, with more than $2 billion in assets under management. It has already paid out more than $600 billion and it still continues to do a good job in supporting families all around Canada.The terms and conditions of the Heritage RESPs are highly flexible and are designed to suit almost anybody who wants to financially prepare for their next-generation.

The beneficiary of an RESP can be a single child or multiple children. The Plan for an individual child is known as the Individual Plan while the Plan for multiple children is known as the Family Plan. As per the terms and conditions of RESPs if the child does not opt for higher education your savings are still returned.

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