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This is not your typical frequent mile on the air episode. This is a standalone segment we're calling coffee break.

Each coffee break segment will cover a single topic related to miles and points.

And each coffee break is limited to 20 minutes or your money back. Enjoy.

Today for coffee break, we're going to talk about how to earn miles while saving and for paying

for college. You could do it either way. You could earn miles and points and cash back while

saving for college. And this could include both yourself, you know, saving for yourself to go to college,

but also, of course, if you have kids that you think will be going to college someday,

you can definitely be using it for that.

Or maybe you're a grandparent, a relative that wants to contribute to a child's, you know, college savings account, you can earn points, miles,

or cash back while doing that. So all that's really cool. And you could use those funds.

You can do it while you're in college. You can use these tricks to pay for college. And after

college, you can use it to pay student

loans. So you can earn more points in miles while paying off student loans. So the big picture here

is that what you do is you use rewards credit cards to buy gift of college gift cards. Now, what gift of

college gift cards do is they allow you to basically move whatever funds are in them to a

529 college savings plan, which are available, you know, all across the United States and, and, uh, or to pay student

loans. So you could use it for both of those, both of those things. So, you know, again, the big,

the big picture is you use a credit card to buy these gift cards. You redeem them for 529 savings or

to pay student loans.

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