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Student Loan Assistance Made Simple: From Setup to Launch in Just an Hour

by Joe Kwasniewski | November 12, 2025 | Benefits, Decisions, Differentiation, Employee Benefits, FAQ, Features, Human Capital, Human Resources, Program Management, Student Loan Assistance, Winning Together | 0 Comments

When it comes to employee benefits, simplicity matters. That’s why we’ve designed our Student Loan Assistance programs to be fast, intuitive, and easy to launch — requiring just about an hour of your team’s time from start to finish. Getting started begins with a...

Don’t Fall Behind: Why Direct Student Loan Repayment is Your ONLY Path to Attracting and Retaining Top Talent (and Why Now is the Time to Act)

by David Aronson | August 4, 2025 | Benefits, Decisions, Differentiation, Employee Benefits, FAQ, Features, Government Relations, Human Capital, Human Resources, Insights, Plan Design, Program Management, Student Loan Assistance, Tax-free | 0 Comments

America's student debt crisis is undeniable. Over 45 million Americans, representing roughly 26% of the U.S. workforce, collectively hold $1.7 trillion in student debt. For Finance and HR executives, this reality presents both a challenge and a profound opportunity to...

Nonprofit Employers: This Is Your Chance to Help Employees Conquer Student Debt

by Joe Kwasniewski | July 16, 2025 | Benefits, Decisions, Differentiation, Employee Benefits, Employee Engagement, FAQ, Features, Human Resources, Insights, Plan Design, Recruiting, Retaining Talent, Student Loan Assistance, Student Loan Balance, Student Loan Repayment, Tax-free | 0 Comments

Changes continue to get announced for borrowers enrolled in the former SAVE plan, bringing fiscal responsibility back to individuals holding these loans. For the millions of borrowers enrolled in this plan, deemed illegal in US courts, interest will begin accruing on...

Your Strategic Advantage: Tax-Free Student Loan Repayment Now Permanent

by David Aronson | July 11, 2025 | Benefits, Differentiation, Employee Benefits, Employee Engagement, FAQ, Human Capital, Human Resources, Insights, Plan Design, Student Loan Assistance, Tax-free, Uncategorized | 0 Comments

To Our Valued Clients, This communication serves to inform you of a significant development that further enhances the value of the student loan repayment benefit you are already providing: the recent passage of the One Big Beautiful Bill (OBBB). This legislation has...

Decoding the OBBB: Permanent Tax-Free Treatment of Employer-Sponsored Student Loan Repayment

by David Aronson | July 8, 2025 | Benefits, Differentiation, Employee Benefits, FAQ, Financial Wellbeing, Finding Talent, Human Capital, Human Resources, Insights, Plan Design, Program Management, Recruiting, Retaining Talent, Student Loan Assistance, Student Loan Balance, Student Loan Debt, Tax-free, Uncategorized | 0 Comments

The OBBB has brought significant, permanent changes to federal student loans. For employers focused on college-educated talent, the biggest impact is the permanent tax-free status for employer student loan assistance. Employers have long found high ROI offering this...

How to design your student loan assistance program, part two: How much should the company contribute toward employee student loans?

by David Aronson | Jan 16, 2017 | Insights

Everyone seems to be talking about student loan assistance as an employee benefit, but how exactly would this work at your company? In part one of this series, we discussed how employers can estimate enrollment by understanding how many of their employees likely have...

How to design your student loan assistance program, part one: How many of my employees have student loans?

by David Aronson | Jan 9, 2017 | Insights

Everyone seems to be talking about student loan assistance as an employee benefit, but how exactly would this work at your company? In this four-part series, we are breaking down the most critical components of evaluating a student loan assistance program. Part one:...

How to design your student loan assistance program: Four part series

by David Aronson | Jan 3, 2017 | Insights

It seems like everyone is talking about student loan assistance as an employee benefit. Team members are asking you about it and articles seem to be popping up everywhere. It's simple enough on the surface - employers are helping their employees pay off their student...

Peanut Butter is on fire

by Tatum Pugh | Dec 12, 2016 | Press Room

On December 8th, Peanut Butter was named to Chicago Inno's 50 on Fire. We were honored to be recognized alongside so many other amazing organizations such as Braintree, SpotHero, Signal and others. Chicago Inno describes 50 on Fire as, "honoring the people and...

Pay off your student loans with Peanut Butter, via Millennial Money

by Tatum Pugh | Nov 8, 2016 | Press Room

Millennial Money is an online publication dedicated to helping millennials "crush your student loans, invest wisely, build wealth, travel more and live a richer life." We recently sat down with the team at Millennial Money to discuss how employers can improve...

Reducing student debt attracts Millennial talent, via Tech.Co

by Tatum Pugh | Nov 3, 2016 | Press Room

Tech.Co recently covered how employers offer student loan repayment as a way to attract and retain talent. Peanut Butter founder and CEO Dave Aronson is featured throughout the article, speaking to the overall debt problem in America and how employers are in a unique...

Founder and CEO Dave Aronson live on WGN Radio

by Tatum Pugh | Oct 23, 2016 | Press Room

Founder and CEO Dave Aronson was up bright and early to be featured on WGN Radio's The Opening Bell through their CEO Spotlight segment. Dave sat down with host Steve Grzanich to discuss how big the student debt problem is, how employers are in a unique position to...

Partnerships with MMI and Holberg bring student loan counseling and financial planning

by David Aronson | Oct 12, 2016 | Press Room

Today, I'm pleased to announce two new partnerships that add complementary services to our core student loan repayment administration offering. We'll be working with Money Management International (MMI) and Holberg Financial (HF) to provide student loan counseling and...

Top five finisher at Tech.Co Startup of the Year competition

by David Aronson | Sep 26, 2016 | Press Room

Out of over 1,000 applicants, Peanut Butter finished in the top five and presented live at the Innovate! and Celebrate Startup of the Year competition in San Jose, California last week. Founder and CEO Dave Aronson pitches live to a room full of conference...

Partnering with Credible to offer broad coverage and simple experience for student loan refinancing

by David Aronson | Sep 21, 2016 | Press Room

San Jose, CA (September 21, 2016). Today, from the Innovate! & Celebrate Conference where Peanut Butter is a semi-finalist for Tech.co's Startup of the Year competition, I'm pleased to announce our partnership with Credible, which expands the student loan...