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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...

Top four takeaways from Chicago Inno’s Talent Meet-Up

by Alifya Valiji | Jul 18, 2016 | Insights

Peanut Butter participated in Chicago Inno's Talent Inno Meetup Showcase held last Thursday which fostered a great dialogue around the best ways to build, sustain, and scale an all-star team. The meetup featured a fantastic panel with HR and Talent executives who...

BuiltIn shares updates on Peanut Butter

by Alifya Valiji | Jul 14, 2016 | Press Room

In February, BuiltIn Chicago named Peanut Butter one of 50 companies to watch in 2016! Since then, our team has been recognized as one of the best new startups at BuiltIn Chicago's 5th annual Moxie Awards and won first place at the Young Presidents' Organization's...

Stay ahead of the turnover tide

by Alifya Valiji | Jul 5, 2016 | Insights

Most employers are well aware of their turnover rate. They try to lower it by offering more sick days, paid vacations, flexible hours and a variety of other benefits. To really stay ahead of the turnover tide, however, an employer has to be well aware of the...

Peanut Butter’s own David Aronson Speaks on Solutions for Student Loan Crisis at City Hall

by Alifya Valiji | Jun 20, 2016 | Government Relations, Press Room

The staggering $1.3 trillion national student loan debt crisis is gaining momentum in national, state, and local politics alike. Many states are already in the process of reviewing prospective programs that will ease the burden on recent graduates in hopes that its...

Peanut Butter talks with U.S. Senator Dick Durbin

by Andrew Bordewick | May 24, 2016 | Government Relations

On the afternoon of Friday, May 13, Peanut Butter visited the Chicago office of U.S. Senator Dick Durbin. Our CEO David Aronson provided an overview of Peanut Butter as a company and the services we provide that enable companies to offer a valuable student loan...

Peanut Butter receives first place at the Young Presidents’ Organization Innovation Week

by Tyler Stock | May 22, 2016 | Press Room

Peanut Butter was recently honored as one of 10 startups to present to members of the Young Presidents' Organization at the Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum in downtown Chicago. The night was jam-packed from start to finish: the event started off at 6:30 p.m. with an...

Peanut Butter nominated for Moxie Award [vote now]

by David Aronson | May 20, 2016 | Press Room

We are honored to be one of the finalists in the "Best New Startup" category of the 2016 Moxie Awards. The Moxie Awards are an annual event presented by Built In Chicago to recognize digital innnovation. During the first round of voting, Built In received more...

Is student debt hurting the economy?

by Tatum Pugh | May 12, 2016 | Government Relations

At first glance, it may seem as though the student debt crisis is a somewhat limited problem, only affecting college-educated Millennials and the companies trying to recruit them. Unfortunately for everyone, this is not the case. It's true that student debt 'only'...

Some states aren’t waiting for federal action to help residents with student loan debt, via GoodCall News

by David Aronson | May 5, 2016 | Government Relations

Student loan debt affects not only individuals but national and local economies as well. Different states are trying to find ways to help the more than 40 million people who struggling with student loans. New York, Illinois and California have already made steps...

UpRight Law announces new student loan benefit

by Andrew Bordewick | May 4, 2016 | Press Room

On Monday, May 2, 2016, CEO Ed Scanlan announced that the company would begin offering student loan repayment contributions to employees. Scanlan made the announcement and provided remarks as part a press conference held by Congressman Robert Dold (IL-10). Mr. Dold...