{"id":32459,"date":"2022-04-12T09:02:14","date_gmt":"2022-04-12T15:02:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/?p=32459"},"modified":"2022-04-12T09:02:14","modified_gmt":"2022-04-12T15:02:14","slug":"nest-account-payments-for-student-loans-approved","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/?p=32459","title":{"rendered":"NEST account payments for student loans approved"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nebraska educational savings plan trust accounts may be used to repay student loans under a bill passed by lawmakers April 12.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_24406\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-24406\" style=\"width: 200px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"24406\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/?attachment_id=24406\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/SenGragert_inline.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"297,445\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;16&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;NIKON D850&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1542113850&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;102&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;100&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.005&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"SenGragert_inline\" data-image-description=\"&lt;p&gt;Sen. Tim Gragert&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;Sen. Tim Gragert&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/SenGragert_inline.jpg\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-24406\" src=\"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/SenGragert_inline-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"Sen. Tim Gragert\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/SenGragert_inline-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/SenGragert_inline.jpg 297w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-24406\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sen. Tim Gragert<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Under LB864, introduced by Sen. Tim Gragert of Creighton, accounts may be used to pay the principal and interest on the qualified education loan of a beneficiary or the beneficiary\u2019s sibling.<\/p>\n<p>The bill caps aggregate total payments at $10,000 per person.<\/p>\n<p>LB864 passed on a vote of 47-0.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nebraska educational savings plan trust accounts may be used to repay student loans under a bill passed by lawmakers April 12. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"colormag_page_container_layout":"default_layout","colormag_page_sidebar_layout":"default_layout","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[17],"tags":[251],"class_list":["post-32459","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-revenue","tag-sen-tim-gragert"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32459","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=32459"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32459\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32461,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32459\/revisions\/32461"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32459"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32459"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32459"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}