Welcome to the Jill on Money Podcast. It's a bonus episode. Hey, guess what gang? My book is out in

paperback and I was on CBS this morning to talk about it.

So here's our segment.

In our eye on money, we're looking at some of the most costly mistakes people make with their finances.

On average college students who graduated in 2018 owe more than $29,000 in loans.

Ouch last year, we spoke to Megan Combs, the 32-year-old has been struggling to pay down her student loan debt for undergrad and grad school.

We recently checked back in to see how she's doing financially.

Around this time last year, I owed about about 66,000 in student loans. My payments were

around $900 and I was taking a look at my budget and my biggest line item was my rent.

I was renting a one bedroom apartment.

And so I decided to purchase a two bedroom condo instead

and rent out the second bedroom. The condo's

mortgage is 10-50 so my roommate pays 700 and I pay $350 a month. I also got a very significant raise that I asked for, a 17% raise.

Right now my balance is at $59,000.

My payments are going to, actually now they think about it more than double.

My timeline for paying off my student loans this time last year was around 10 years and now with my

living situation and my raise all of that allows me to pay

them off in four years that is only if I don't get another raise so it could be

I'm shooting for three years

Megan's doing really well.

CBS News business analyst Jill Schles Schles-Sussinger joins us. She writes about the impact of college debt and more in her book

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