Helen Kellerman understands the importance of volunteering and the positive impact it can have on the older adults she supports. 

As a volunteer caregiver for Lutheran Social Service of Minnesota, she visits Tom for a few hours a week to provide Maggie, Tom’s wife and caregiver, with a break from the daily demands of caregiving. 

A new preschool will be opening next fall on St. Paul’s East Side that will offer an extra measure of support to parents and additional care and attention in the classroom to empower children with developmental delays and emotional challenges to be successful in the learning and social environment of a school. 

If you're among the more than 800,000 Minnesotans who are starting to pay back your federal student loans as of October 1 when student loan payments resumed, check out Minnesota Now with Cathy Wurzer at MPR who talked with Kim Miller at LSS Financial Counseling this week to help answer questions from listeners.

Are you wondering how you will work student loan payments into your budget when they resume in October? On KARE-TV, Kim Miller with LSS Financial Counseling offers some ideas and guidance on getting back on track with student loan payments. 

The Star Tribune reported that 800,000 Minnesotans have student loan debt totaling more than $27 million. Now that student loan payments will resume in October, emotions are running high.

In two weeks, bills are coming due for millions of Americans with student loans after a three-year payment pause. Interest already started accruing earlier this month.

Kim Miller, a certified financial counselor with LSS Financial Counseling, offered guidance to borrowers in a recent interview with WCCO.

Kim Miller with LSS Financial Counseling appeared on KARE TV’s Your Money show to share the ins and outs of the SAVE Plan, a new option that allows student loan borrowers to base their payment on income and family size, which can significantly reduce monthly payments, and sometimes reduce them to zero. Check out this story!

As student loan payments resume in October, Kim Miller with LSS Financial Counseling, offers guidance to borrowers on options available in a September 1 MPR story. She also advises borrowers to prepare by reviewing the federal student loan website, studentaid.gov — a “one-stop shop” of information on managing student loans. “It also provides all of their loan history." Miller said.