Money Management Matters Site to Aid Students, Topic: Health Care
LEXINGTON, Ky. (Nov. 12, 2014) — What might your degree be worth?
The University of Kentucky Graduate School is prepared to aid students in developing the personal financial knowledge to answer this question and others related to financial literacy.
The UK Graduate School has created a personal financial education webpage titled "Money Management Matters," (MMM) built upon six salient personal financial topics that pertain directly to students and graduates:
1. Student loans
2. Employment
3. Healthcare
4. Credit
5. Saving and investing
6. Money management
Click here to view a video about "Money Management Matters."
This week, UKNow will highlight the third topic: health care
Understanding the options available to you concerning health coverage can seem overwhelming at times. The MMM webpage has put together an intuitive collection of health care resources designed to make the task of implementing an informed health coverage choice more manageable.
Students transitioning off parents' health insurance for 2015 may wish to visit the Healthcare tab on the MMM web page. Open enrollment for health insurance through the public health care exchanges begins Nov. 15, 2014. The MMM site provides direct links to KYNECT, for Kentucky residents, and Healthcare.gov for non-Kentucky residents to aid individuals in obtaining information concerning health care coverage for 2015.
The UK Graduate School is one of 15 universities, in partnership with the Council of Graduate Schools (CGS) and the investment firm TIAA-CREF, introducing a personal financial literacy initiative aimed at educating students and graduates.
Last fall the 15 university partners distributed surveys to their graduate student populations concerning a variety of personal financial questions, to understand their “baseline” of personal financial knowledge. Using this information, the CGS developed GradSense.org as a personal financial education platform designed to help students and graduates enhance their personal financial knowledge.
The UK Graduate School has created the "Money Management Matters" website to strengthen this initiative at UK.
“We hope the information provided within GradSense.org and MMM will aid students and graduates in establishing a strong foundation of personal financial knowledge that they can build upon in order to make sound decisions across all stages of their personal financial life cycle,” said Chris Riley, project manager of the Enhancing Student Financial Education Grant and graduate student at the Martin School of Public Policy and Administration.
MEDIA CONTACT: Sarah Geegan, (859) 257-5365; sarah.geegan@uky.edu