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Many employees have been dealing with an ongoing, debilitating crisis that took hold long before the pandemic: student debt. And unlike COVID-19, there’s no vaccine to help slow the spread.
Americans owe an estimated $1.7 trillion in student loans, according to the Federal Reserve, and while this debt continues to grow, only 8% of employers offer benefits that address this issue, according to the Society for Human Resource Management.
Amanda Schiavo is an associate editor of Employee Benefit News. Follow her on Twitter at @SchiavoAmanda.
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