Student debt loads continue to increase: StatsCan
Students are graduating from post-secondary institutions saddled with debt and are taking much longer to become financially self-sufficient.
The proportion of students with heavy debt loads of $25,000 or more rose to 27%, up from 17% in 1995, according to the most recent Statistics Canada data.
This is hampering recent graduates when it comes to saving for the future and, in some cases, is also forcing their baby-boomer parents to postpone their own retirements.
And it doesn’t get much better from there — at least not in a hurry. The average assets of postsecondary graduates aged 20 to 29 who had borrowed money was $60,700, compared with $106,300 for those who hadn’t taken out loans.
Student-loan borrowers could only lay claim to an average net worth of $17,500 — less than a third of the $61,900 average for those with no loan.
This goes a long way to explaining why more than 60% of baby-boomer parents admit to providing roughly $3,700 a year in financial support to their adult kids. And why they don’t see things changing anytime soon.
While the majority of baby boomers claim they were financially self-supporting by the time they were 21, they don’t expect their children to achieve the same goal until at least 25.
Are you still strapped with student debt? Are your parents helping you over the hump?
By Gordon Powers, MSN Money
Posted by: MyCashToday | May 27, 2021 9:29:53 AM
There requires being more education about the advantages of contributing to an education savings plan beginning from birth or even before. Along with little payment on a daily basis, debt for at least the first degree will be mostly abolished.