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Parents often find that the easiest way to give allowances or other financial donations to a student is by making payments directly to the student’s credit card online.  This saves the student from having to find time to go to the bank and cash a check.  It also helps the student establish a good payment history.

Financial companies designed the student credit cards as a meaningful tool to both help young people establish credit and to build an excellent credit rating.  Learning to handle these credit cards requires a thorough understanding that this is not free money, and it does need to be paid back.  Interest rates increase from zero to 15%-20%, or higher, after the first six months.  If no payments are made until the maximum credit limit is reached, the student might start receiving overlimit fees.  Easy online account management tools make paying monthly and understanding the whole process easier.  The advantage to learning the wisdom of making payments monthly and the value of paying off the credit card every month create real-life financial experiences that might eventually be more valuable than anything else learned in the classrooms.

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