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Saving for a child’s education an RESP

in Education, Family and Home on 09/30/14

It’s not too late to save for a child’s education with an RESP  #RESPwithRBC

Don’t forget to find out about RBCs contest where they are giving away three prizes of $500 each to help you start saving for your child’s education. To find out more keep on reading!

If you are one of those organized parents who is on top of everything or almost everything you most likely got a head start on your child’s education by opening an Registered Education Savings Plan (RESP) for them not long after they were born. Perhaps you are like some who got them am RESP while they were a toddler or you’re like me.

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I’m the parent whose child just turned 13 years old this month and have just started the process for her RESP. I’ve thought about it every year and then got distracted. My excuse was that we didn’t have her social insurance number yet so I kept putting it off and forgetting about it. I always had the best intentions but just never followed through, until now.

With my daughter starting high school this year, it hit me in early September that she’s only got 5 more years before she graduates and will be on  her way to post-secondary education. The good news is it’s not too late for us and it’s not too late for you and your child. If you’re child is still very young even better, if you haven’t looked into an RESP you can get going on it now! I now know it’s incredibly easy to get an RESP started and of course the earlier you start the better.

For example did you know that:

  • If you start early and contribute regularly ($25 a week can add up to $50,911** in 18 years)
  • You can receive free money from the government! The Canada Education Savings Grant will match up to 20% on the first $2,500 contributed annually. That could mean up to an additional $500 a year in your RESP, up to a lifetime maximum of $7,200!
  • You have the flexibility to use the RESP for university, college, apprenticeship, non-credit courses etc., and if your child doesn’t use the funds, you can use your contributions and earnings to fund your RRSP!

I made an appointment with my local RBC branch as my family has all our accounts including our mortgage with RBC and I went in to talk about saving for my daughter’s education. My advisor walked me through it, which did not take as long as I thought, we signed the papers and got it started. Within a couple of days RBC worked it’s magic and it was all set up and ready for us to start contributing to it.

It was all very timely as my daughter had her 13th birthday so we told family and friends about the RESP and as a result many gave her gifts of money to contribute to her RESP. It does make for a wonderful gift for her future or any child’s future. She got some money to spend and the rest went to her RESP.

She was excited to go to the bank with me to deposit the rest of the money into her RESP account. As she put it to save so she could study to become a video game designer which has been her choice of career for the last year.

You can watch her on the video below talking about what she wants to be, she actually has two choices 🙂

I did tell her after this video that singers would benefit from an education too, writing music, vocal lessons, getting a music degree etc.. She’ll most likely change her mind a few times before she graduates high school and that’s okay. For me, it’s all about giving our children options so that they dream about being doctors, nurses, fire fighters or whatever else they want and supporting that dream by planning how we can save for their education.

So even if you’re child is not old enough to think about what they want to be when they grow up, that’s okay you can think about it and start saving for their education now.

You can find some fabulous tips on saving for your child’s education here:

http://www.rbcroyalbank.com/resp  and rbc.com/education

RBC is going to have a Twitter party on October 1 where you can wine one of 6 $100 gift cards. Watch for the hashtag #RESPwithRBC!

Enter the RBC RESP contest with 4 prizes of $500 (towards an RESP) to be won, winners can get a head start in saving for their child’s dreams! Go here ==> http://bit.ly/1tY3nGZ to enter!

 

Disclosure: I am part of the RBC RESP blogger program with Mom Central Canada and I receive special perks as part of my affiliation with this group. The opinions on this blog are my own.

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I’m Michelle aka Powered by Mom. I’m married with one daughter, my hubby was my high school sweetheart, our two dogs Nyx and Cleo and our cat Oliver. As you can see we’re a family of animal lovers. We love to travel when we can, try different food and activities all over the world and enjoy being together. My passions are writing, travelling, creating new recipes, encouraging people to adopt not shop and just to enjoy life while we can.

As an animal lover I also volunteer with a rescue organization called Three Little Pitties All Breed Rescue. I'm part of the cat program Three Little Kitties Saving Kitties which tries to save as many cats as possible in Houston, Texas which has a huge overpopulation fo cats and they euthanize far too many cats (and dogs) we want to change that. Please check out their Facebook page and consider donating https://www.facebook.com/ThreeLittlePittiesRescueSavingKitties

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  1. Linda Manns says

    August 12, 2015 at 10:25 AM

    You can never start to early for their education. College is so expensive now days and I don’t think our income has increased with the cost of this. My son has an account for both of the grandchildren. Thank you for sharing this great article

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  2. Brigid OHara Koshko says

    January 7, 2015 at 2:32 AM

    I have not been able to save for the kids education yet but we are planning on starting this year. Our state has a small scholarship open to all students who attend and in state school and maintain a certain GPA. I hope my kids will chose to stay in state and try for this and academic and sports scholarships. I hate for them to have the burden of heavy school loans like I did.

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  3. Deb E says

    November 7, 2014 at 9:26 AM

    Education is so costly these days that every bit helps. Thank goodness for programs like these.

    Reply
  4. Sue B says

    October 27, 2014 at 12:03 PM

    The middle class is getting squeezed by each end. Our Children are in college now one who will loss insurance by the end of the month(26) and she has 3 more years to go. I wished I had planned better for the yea

    Reply
  5. Penni says

    October 7, 2014 at 8:22 AM

    What a wonderful idea! I wish we had this in the U.S.!

    Reply
  6. margaret peg m says

    October 4, 2014 at 9:56 PM

    hi, we did this (U.S.) for our son, who will graduate from college in May ’15 and it was soooo helpful, he’ll graduate debt-free.

    Reply
  7. RANDY FULGHAM says

    October 4, 2014 at 7:22 PM

    THANKS FOR SHARING

    Reply
  8. lana simanovicki says

    October 4, 2014 at 10:13 AM

    wow this is good info i really gotta look into this

    Reply
  9. Shannon says

    October 3, 2014 at 2:16 PM

    Is this available to those in the united states as well or just canada

    Reply
  10. Rita Spratlen says

    October 2, 2014 at 10:34 PM

    These are great tips. It is important today to get a great job and it is so expensive to go to school. I think starting early is wonderful. I think that instilling the incentive to go to school is important too. Great grades and grants etc can help a lot too. Great thing to think about for all parents.

    Reply
  11. carolynn ferraro says

    October 2, 2014 at 7:39 PM

    Great info! Thanks.. That sounds like a great program!

    Reply
  12. Jo-Ann Brightman says

    October 2, 2014 at 5:54 PM

    It is so important to save for a child/;s education as soon as possible. RESP seems to be a great idea

    Reply
  13. Lauryn Rescoe says

    October 1, 2014 at 6:12 PM

    This is such a great contest! I have 3 children and I wonder and stress out about how we are going to pay for their education when they get old enough.

    Reply
  14. Anita says

    October 1, 2014 at 8:58 AM

    I did not know.but I do now.I have someone to share this with.thanks

    Reply
  15. Tammy S says

    October 1, 2014 at 6:30 AM

    Thank you for sharing this info. We have an account for our kids. What concerns me the most is that we won’t have enough money. The price just keeps getting higher and higher each year.

    Reply
  16. Jenn E says

    September 30, 2014 at 10:47 PM

    Great information! Thanks for sharing

    Reply

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