by Tatum Pugh | Sep 29, 2020 | 529 Savings Plan, Insights, Retaining Talent
Smart organizations include Student Loan Assistance in their benefits packages because they’re aware of the increasing student loan debt burden their employees face and they know it’s an effective tool for hiring and retaining top college-educated talent. If your...
by Tatum Pugh | Sep 29, 2020 | In the Kitchen
Our company’s name is an homage to college grads everywhere, since so many eked by on peanut butter in an effort to save and pay for their college education. Now, those college grads are putting their degrees to work, and many are cooking at home more due to the...
by Tatum Pugh | Sep 29, 2020 | Program Management
All Peanut Butter clients receive an administration and communications toolkit full of resources to help them make the most of their student loan assistance program. This blog series “What’s in your toolkit?” is designed to help employers discover and understand the...
by Tatum Pugh | Sep 17, 2020 | Insights
Whether you have student loans or not, understanding the terminology surrounding student debt is easier said than done. That’s part of the reason why Peanut Butter exists — to make it easy to tackle student debt! Many people find it particularly challenging to...
by Tatum Pugh | Sep 17, 2020 | Press Room
Peanut Butter CEO David Aronson recently joined Established CEO Frank Gruber on an episode of Startup of the Year’s podcast. Startup of the Year is an annual competition hosted by Established, a consultancy focused on helping organizations with innovation, startup and...
by Tatum Pugh | Aug 25, 2020 | Program Management
All Peanut Butter clients receive an administration and communications toolkit full of resources to help them make the most of their student loan assistance program. This blog series “What’s in your toolkit?” is designed to help employers discover and understand the...
by Tatum Pugh | Jul 30, 2020 | Program Management
All Peanut Butter clients receive an administration and communications toolkit full of resources to help them make the most of their student loan assistance program. This blog series “What’s in your toolkit?” is designed to help employers discover and understand the...
by Tatum Pugh | Jul 15, 2020 | Employee Engagement
MRA, an HR member organization that helps employers with best practices, hosted Peanut Butter CEO David Aronson last week to talk about how student loan assistance can help employers attract, retain and engage college-educated talent. In his presentation to MRA...
by Tatum Pugh | Jul 8, 2020 | Employee Engagement
2020 has presented the U.S. workforce with a number of unprecedented changes. With social distancing guidelines in place, many companies have been forced out of their offices and into the virtual workspace. From Zoom happy hours to virtual coffee breaks, companies...
by Tatum Pugh | Jun 30, 2020 | Program Management
All Peanut Butter clients receive a toolkit full of resources to help them make the most of their student loan assistance program. This blog series “What’s in your toolkit?” is designed to help employers discover and understand the various materials included in their...
by Tatum Pugh | Jun 29, 2020 | Employee Benefits
As COVID-19 continues to dictate where and how we work — and open enrollment season draws nearer — employers need to determine if their benefits package aligns with the state of their workforce. For example, common office perks like all-you-can-drink...
by Tatum Pugh | Jun 29, 2020 | Workplace diversity
Student debt is a primary financial concern for nearly 45 million U.S. borrowers. While each of these borrowers is subject to months to years of repayment efforts, there is no group that is affected more by student debt than Black Americans. A recent article from...
by Michelle Yin | Jun 10, 2020 | Student Loan Assistance
It’s no secret that the way we work today looks completely different than it did just a few months ago. With social distancing guidelines in place, companies across the U.S. have shifted to remote work, and many employers are considering adopting this new model on a...
by Tatum Pugh | Jun 9, 2020 | Financial Wellbeing
Peanut Butter recently entered a partnership with PeopleStrategy, a full-service brokerage and provider of comprehensive, cloud-based human resource (HR) solutions, to help introduce Student Loan Assistance programs to PeopleStrategy’s client employers. Employers...
by Tatum Pugh | May 27, 2020 | Financial Wellbeing
With financial uncertainty continuing to grow, employers in every industry are faced with a grueling reality: financial stress in the workplace is real (and higher than ever before), and it comes with a hefty price tag. In 2019, 69% of employees admitted they were...
by Tatum Pugh | May 26, 2020 | Tax-free
Peanut Butter CEO David Aronson was featured as a subject matter expert last week on an episode of NFP’s Big Questions. Aronson was invited to speak about the CARES Act and how it offers specific relief for student debt borrowers, and creates an opportunity for...
by Tatum Pugh | Apr 21, 2020 | Tax-free
Signed into law on Friday, March 27, 2020, the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act (H.R. 748, “CARES Act”, or “Stimulus Bill”), includes tax incentives when employers choose to offer Student Loan Repayment as a benefit. Under the CARES Act (H.R. 748,...
by Tatum Pugh | Apr 14, 2020 | Employee Benefits
St. Michael’s Inc., a government contracting firm that provides financial management to defense and intelligence agencies throughout the U.S., recently announced their Student Loan Assistance Program with Peanut Butter. By offering a Student Loan Repayment...
by Tatum Pugh | Apr 10, 2020 | Tax-free
How to attract, retain and engage college-educated workers On March 27, 2020, the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act (H.R. 748, “CARES Act”, specifically Sec. 2206(B)) made it possible for companies to pay down their employees’ student loans...
by Tatum Pugh | Apr 6, 2020 | Buffalo, Press Room
Peanut Butter was featured in Buffalo Business First last week, as companies across the country pivot to avoid the economic repercussions of coronavirus. The article highlights Peanut Butter CEO David Aronson, who says the company is hard at work on some...
