21Feb
16Feb
Candidly Releases Inaugural Impact Report
Candidly, the leading AI-driven student debt and savings optimization platform, released today its 2023 Impact Report, which highlights customer profiles and shares key milestones met by the company in 2023. Achievements featured in the report include surpassing $1 billion in projected impact over the life of the loans of its end users, the vast majority of whom are offered Candidly as a workplace benefit from their employer. This number represents the total dollar impact that Candidly users are on track...
27Jan
401(k) Real Chat: Laurel Taylor
Retirement industry thought leaders answer three probing questions on critical issues, providing an open, honest and candid dialogue. This week, we host Laurel Taylor, founder & CEO at Candidly, which helps DC plan sponsors help their employees better manage their student loans. Read more >>
25Jan
Employers have short window to help workers ‘crush student debt’ through retirement plan match
Through 2025, employer-sponsored retirement plans are able to help workers “crush student debt” by offering a retirement plan match based on a qualified student loan payment, Candidly Founder and CEO Laurel Taylor said Tuesday at a conference. The retirement symposium was sponsored by the Employee Benefit Research Institute and the Milken Institute. The potential benefit comes from the Consolidated Appropriations Act, which was signed into law in 2020 as part of pandemic relief efforts. Read more >>
21Dec
Your employer may soon give you a 401(k) match for your student loan payments
In the new year, some employers will begin making matching 401(k) contributions into a retirement account for their employees’ student loan payments, a change that could be “transformational” for borrowers who may have trouble saving for retirement while paying down their debt. Different provisions in the legislation have different implementation dates: 401(k) matches for student loan payments will begin after Jan. 1. That comes just a few months after federal student loan payments resumed after a three and a half...
12Dec
Nudge Money Announces Partnership with Candidly to Empower Users to Tackle Student Debt
Nudge Money, the preeminent full-spectrum AI Financial Wellness Solution, announced today a partnership with Candidly, the leading AI-driven student debt and savings optimization platform. This collaboration aims to empower employer and financial institution customers of Nudge to support their workforce and customers with tools that help with planning and paying for college, repaying student debt, and building savings via access to Candidly. Read more >>
05Dec
Inc.’s Best in Business 2023 Companies That Put Purpose Before Profit
Candidly has been named to Inc. Magazine's 2023 Best In Business list, featured in the Financial Services category in recognition of our “foresight, caring, and dedication to positive impact.” Read more >>
27Oct
Candidly Expands Beyond Student Debt Solutions with Emergency Savings Solution to Build Financial Resilience
Candidly, the leading AI-driven student debt and savings optimization platform, announced today the launch of its Emergency Savings solution. This new offering will be available to users as a workplace benefit through employers, record keepers, and financial institutions, alongside Candidly’s full-suite of student debt and SECURE 2.0 retirement savings enablement solutions. Candidly’s Emergency Savings solution enables workers to activate convenient automation features, such as setting up payroll deduction, auto-enroll, and effortlessly rounding up spare change from everyday transactions to passively...
04Oct
When Parents and Kids Both Have Student Loans
College debt compounds the unease families share about their financial future. The cost of student loans isn't just affecting young Americans. It is rippling through generations of families at once, hampering the ability to build wealth and prepare for retirement. Read more >>
17Aug