Howard S
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Better to put money in stock market. If I had kno...
Better to put money in stock market. If I had known this 15 years ago, my kids' tuition would have been ALL paid for plus more!
BlackDawg
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You spend all this money for the Virginia 529 plan...
You spend all this money for the Virginia 529 plan to find out there s still lots of extra fees at certain universities. I would ve been better off investing this money in a 401K or certain stocks. When you find out there s a $2200+ per year fee for Engineering Majors, and $500+ per year fees for...
Grace Lee
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When I was able to finally get through the custome...
When I was able to finally get through the customer representative, she was very helpful. I was told when i called on several occasions that the weight time was over an hour. It then asked you to leave a message but the voicemail was full. The customer representative, however, was helpful.
D G
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Stay away from their age based portfolios!! Absol...
Stay away from their age based portfolios!! Absolutely terrible return and simply a waste. College savings can be aggressive - this is not retirement. I really really wish I had just put money in a stock index. I have three kids and could have spread the timing risk. Honestly, one of my biggest fin...
Charles Sharp
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I have been saving with VA529 for more than seven ...
I have been saving with VA529 for more than seven years now. I opened up an account for my son, and have opened accounts for several of my nephews and nieces. I haven t needed to speak with anyone by phone; all of my interaction has been online. So far, however, I have had no problems with accomp...
Katherine Perry
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Agree with others wrt slow customer service and po...
Agree with others wrt slow customer service and poor response rate. My other beef with this plan is the investment itself. I selected the most aggressive accounts for my kids and they have made only slight gains compared to the kids' parallel accounts in Fidelity. It's easy to compare the two and...
sunflower123
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Virginia 529 has terrible speed of processing paym...
Virginia 529 has terrible speed of processing payment, we sent request in early August and called the customer service more than 5 times, they would tell us different stories each time but process the payment, it has been more than 2 moths and we still dont receive the payment. I felt very frustrate...
Evan Harris
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Possibly the worst customer service I ve ever expe...
Possibly the worst customer service I ve ever experienced. Getting your funds released to the beneficiary s college practically takes an act of god. Providing all the information it takes to open an account in no way entitles your child prompt access to their funds. Don t bother arguing because w...
Patrick Owens
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Don't bother calling, by the time they answer the ...
Don't bother calling, by the time they answer the phone your child will have graduated.
James Leonard
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I've got accounts for each my kids--one since 2013...
I've got accounts for each my kids--one since 2013 and the other since 2016--and I've been pleased with how VA529 has handled my investments. One of the reasons I went with VA529 was to allocate some investments to funds that I wouldn't or couldn't easily tinker with, and I'm happy I did that based ...