The college landscape looks different than a year ago, with test-optional policies, a deluge of applications at the elite schools and an improved outlook.
The new due date for 2020 contributions applies to both traditional IRAs and Roth IRAs, as well as health savings accounts, Archer medical savings accounts (Archer MSAs) and Coverdell education savings accounts (Coverdell ESAs).
The plan includes an extension of jobless benefits, another round of direct household payments, money for state and local governments and an expansion of vaccinations and virus-testing programs.
Federal legislation will shrink the FAFSA from six pages to two and eliminate a benefit affecting parents with more than one child attending college simultaneously.