Requiring Louisiana TOPS Opportunity and TOPS Performance recipients to repay their scholarship if they drop or flunk out of college without a good reason, passes out of the House Education Committee on a six to five vote. Laplace Representative Sylvia Taylor asked the bill’s author, Dennis Bamberg, if L-A Gator Scholarship recipients should also be subject to repaying the state…
If this legislation becomes law, TOPS Opportunity and TOPS performance recipients would repay the scholarship dollars they have used up, even though the scholarship money goes to the university not the student. Lafayette Representative Josh Carlson supports the legislation…
The bill could be heard on the House floor as early as next week.
Its tax day and there are some people seeing higher refunds this year. John Theriot is a CPA with Malcolm Dienes in Metairie and he says recent changes to federal and state income tax laws were designed to put more money in your pocket, but that’s not the only reason for the bigger refunds…
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He says he hasn’t seen the same for self-employed individuals but adjusting quarterly payments could make a difference.
According to an Associated Press report, the average cost of a new vehicle is 50-thousand dollars. That’s up 30-percent in six years. UNO economist Walter Lane says if you are planning on buying a new car, spreading out the payments over five to seven year period can help reduce the monthly note, or just keep driving what you are driving…
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