{"id":12432,"date":"2019-04-08T10:59:40","date_gmt":"2019-04-08T15:59:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wisconsin.edu\/ohrwd\/benefits\/?page_id=12432"},"modified":"2025-03-11T19:16:57","modified_gmt":"2025-03-12T00:16:57","slug":"529-college-savings-plan","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.wisconsin.edu\/ohrwd\/benefits\/other-benefits\/529-college-savings-plan\/","title":{"rendered":"529 College Savings Plan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.edvest.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"img-no-border alignright wp-image-25760 size-medium\" title=\"Edvest Wisconsin's College Savings Plan\" src=\"https:\/\/www.wisconsin.edu\/ohrwd\/benefits\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/42\/2023\/08\/Edvest-Logo-Horizontal-new-300x119.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"119\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.wisconsin.edu\/ohrwd\/benefits\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/42\/2023\/08\/Edvest-Logo-Horizontal-new-300x119.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.wisconsin.edu\/ohrwd\/benefits\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/42\/2023\/08\/Edvest-Logo-Horizontal-new-1024x406.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.wisconsin.edu\/ohrwd\/benefits\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/42\/2023\/08\/Edvest-Logo-Horizontal-new-768x305.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.wisconsin.edu\/ohrwd\/benefits\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/42\/2023\/08\/Edvest-Logo-Horizontal-new-1536x609.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.wisconsin.edu\/ohrwd\/benefits\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/42\/2023\/08\/Edvest-Logo-Horizontal-new-2048x812.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Edvest is Wisconsin&#8217;s 529 College Savings Plan. It allows you to save for your child&#8217;s (or anyone&#8217;s) K-12 education expenses and post-high school education. Funds can cover tuition, books, room and board, computers, tablets, and many other expenses. This may be funds for universities, colleges, professional schools, technical colleges, graduate programs across the country and even at some institutions abroad.<\/p>\n<p>Edvest provides tax deductions for Wisconsin residents (limitations apply). Any earnings are free from federal income tax when used for qualified expenses. Universities of Wisconsin employees are also able to utilize direct deposit from their payroll with a minimum contribution of $15 per pay period.<\/p>\n<p>For more information review the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.edvest.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Edvest website<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Edvest is Wisconsin&#8217;s 529 College Savings Plan. It allows you to save for your child&#8217;s (or anyone&#8217;s) K-12 education expenses and post-high school education. Funds can cover tuition, books, room and board, computers, tablets, and many other expenses. This may be funds for universities, colleges, professional schools, technical colleges, graduate programs across the country and [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1612,"featured_media":0,"parent":43,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-templates\/42.7563.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-12432","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wisconsin.edu\/ohrwd\/benefits\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/12432","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wisconsin.edu\/ohrwd\/benefits\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wisconsin.edu\/ohrwd\/benefits\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wisconsin.edu\/ohrwd\/benefits\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1612"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wisconsin.edu\/ohrwd\/benefits\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12432"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.wisconsin.edu\/ohrwd\/benefits\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/12432\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28113,"href":"https:\/\/www.wisconsin.edu\/ohrwd\/benefits\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/12432\/revisions\/28113"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wisconsin.edu\/ohrwd\/benefits\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/43"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wisconsin.edu\/ohrwd\/benefits\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12432"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}