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Hello, Everybody I've been reading gcaptain for awhile, it's nice to have somewhere to get all the scuttle butt on the happenings of our industry. Has anybody heard of HR bill 2651, the maritime workforce development act? I read about in it "Workboat" several months ago. The bill is supposed to provide loans for mariners to pay school tuitions and other fees. Mariners would be able to borrow up $60K over the course of their career (limited to $15k per year). Each loan would have a pay back period of 10yrs. Does anyone have additional input??? Thanks.
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It hasnt passed yet
http://www.govtrack.us/congress/bill.xpd?bill=h111-2651 |
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This bill has been incorporated in HR 3619 which is the Coast Guard Reauthorization for 2010. There are several goodies that are very popular to states and industry, so the Senate might actually take this one on. A new Coast Guard Icebreaker, taking the limit off OSV tonnage, and the Mariner Loan Program is included.
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Some schools like PMI and MITAGS currently offer low cost loans through Sallie Mae, or at least they did - I'm pretty sure. Might be worth checking out.
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http://www.govtrack.us/users/events....bill:h111-2651 for e-mail updates and tracker/feeds........ http://www.govtrack.us/users/yourmonitors.xpd |
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