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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...

Peanut Butter selected as a Top 100 Finalist for the 2016 Chicago Innovation Awards

by David Aronson | Sep 15, 2016 | Press Room

Out of a record-breaking 643 nominees, the judges have selected Peanut Butter as a Top 100 Finalist for the 2016 Chicago Innovation Awards. Be sure to cast your vote in the People's Choice Award category... preferably for us 🙂 We are honored to have been...

Peanut Butter named Tech.co Startup of the Year semifinalist

by David Aronson | Sep 12, 2016 | Press Room

Tech.Co has selected Peanut Butter as a Startup Of The Year semi-finalist. The team will be in Silicon Valley competing at Innovate! and Celebrate!, the three-day global conference featuring tech titans and innovative companies like Peanut Butter. If you are in the...

The benefit that Millennials need: Our Technori interview on WGN Radio

by Tatum Pugh | Aug 31, 2016 | Press Room

Peanut Butter CEO David Aronson sat down with Technori CEO Scott Kitun to discuss the massive student debt problem in the U.S. and how employers are uniquely positioned to help. CEO David Aronson chatting with Technori CEO Scott Kutin on WGN Radio

One-minute video: Intro to Peanut Butter

by Tatum Pugh | Aug 30, 2016 | Insights, Press Room

Here is a one-minute video explaining why student loan assistance has become the top desired benefit among college-educated workers and how Peanut Butter can help you administer this benefit. Schedule time with the Peanut Butter Client Solutions Team today to...

Peanut Butter accepts award for Tech Startup of the Year @ Timmy Awards

by Tatum Pugh | Aug 30, 2016 | Press Room

We were thrilled to win Tech Startup of the Year first runner-up at the recent Tech In Motion Timmy awards held at 1871. Congrats to all the winners and thank you to everyone who voted!! Peanut Butter Student Loan Repayment Founder and CEO Dave...

Student loan repayment plans drive diversity in the workplace

by Tatum Pugh | Aug 29, 2016 | Insights

Workplace diversity is a major concern for employers these days. More and more companies now have Chief Diversity Officers responsible for managing entire groups focused on diversity initiatives. These efforts are well founded. According to ScientificAmerican.com,...

Treatment of student loan repayment under FSLA final rule change

by David Aronson | Aug 22, 2016 | Insights

As requested by President Obama in 2014, the Department of Labor Wage and Hour Division has issued a Final Rule in May 2016 that updates the Fair Labor Standards Act, with changes effective December 1, 2016. In part, the changes require that Executive, Administrative...

Student loan debt challenges us all

by Andrew Bordewick | Aug 5, 2016 | Insights, Press Room

If you have student loan debt, you know the impact it has on your monthly take-home pay. When you're contributing a car payment's worth of money to your student loan servicer every month, that makes it pretty hard to actually buy a new car or save much money. Can you...

Peanut Butter has been nominated for three awards!

by Alifya Valiji | Aug 1, 2016 | Press Room

Peanut Butter has been nominated for not one, not two, but three awards! It's an honor to get recognized amongst some of the best. Check out the awards we're nominated for and how you can help us win! Tech.Co's Startup of the Year - VOTE 'til Sunday, August 7th! The...

Peanut Butter listed as an HR Technology to Watch

by Alifya Valiji | Jul 25, 2016 | Press Room

Peanut Butter was listed as one of the most interesting HR technologies! See what other HR tech made the list.