If you're wondering about trying out the "buy now, pay later" option during the holidays, check out the pros and cons offered by Kim Miller with LSS Financial Counseling in a KARE-TV report.
Alissa Dott has been named Associate Vice President of Community Based Services for St. Paul-based Lutheran Social Service of Minnesota (LSS), among the largest human service organizations in Minnesota.
There’s an urgent need for child foster families – and adoptive homes as well. In 2022, 11,235 children in Minnesota experienced out-of-home care. For children who left out-of-home placement, 20 percent were adopted by families, according to the Minnesota Department of Human Services.
Keatha and Dan McLeod, who knew of the great need to provide a safe, healing home for children, served as foster parents for 20 years.
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.
Payments on federal student loans resumed in October after a 3-year pause. More than 800,000 people in the state of Minnesota have federal student loan debt. That debt, combined with state and private loans, according to the Minnesota Office of Higher Education, has made the median loan for student borrowers in Minnesota nearly $24,000. Jazz88’s Peter Solomon spoke with Kim Miller, financial counselor at LSS Financial Counseling, about what borrowers can do to become informed about loan servicers, repayment options, getting out of default, and where to obtain free financial counseling.
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.
