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Plan is to roll the dice and bet with the kids'/government's money early on:https://www.canada.ca/en/revenue-age...rant-cesg.html
Who qualifies for the basic CESG
No matter what your family income is, ESDC pays an amount of Canada Education Savings Grant (basic CESG) of 20% of annual contributions you make to all eligible RESPs for a qualifying beneficiary to a maximum CESG of $500 in respect of each beneficiary ($1,000 in CESG if there is unused grant room from a previous year), and a lifetime limit of $7,200.
Who qualifies for the additional CESG
ESDC will also pay an additional amount of Canada Education Savings Grant (additional CESG) for each qualifying beneficiary. The additional amount is based on the adjusted income and can change over time as the adjusted income changes.
The following chart gives you a brief overview of how the CESG is calculated depending on the adjusted income:
1. Go hard and max out contributions to get the full 20% grant on each of the first 14 years
2. Invest the $42k in long holds during this time
3. May the stock gods be with me
4. In year 15-18, exit from long and replace with low risk investments or keep as cash
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Do you guys include potential inflation depends on when your kids goes to uni?
Tuition tripled from 1990 to 2016. If the trend continues and you have a 3 year old today, expect it would cost $$20-25K/yr in tuition alone by 2035 instead of today's $12K/yr.
And that's based on current government funding (50% of tuition) and foreign student enrollment rate. Both may change in the future probably to the wrong direction = higher cost.
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What about factoring in socialist trends towards further subsidizing educations?
20 years from now going to school will probably be free, and TrudeauBot 3000 will have confiscated our RESP’s
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Hmmm, and get UBI on top. I guess I know what I'm doing when I retired. I'll be that old know it all guy that annoys the everyone by asking too many irrelevant questions in class.This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
Dude, there won’t be any retirement. You will get the needle when you turn 65.This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
This is the way
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We just started a RESP for our first kid and it didn't even cross our mind that it should be enough to cover tuition AND living expenses like rent and stuff. We just thought as long as it covers her 4 year of tuition + books we have done our part, and if she wants to go out of city, that's on her (and we will partially help) to find ways to do that.. working part time.. student loan.. etc..
There is nothing stopping you from supplementing outside of RESP if you need/want to... it’s not that great of a program such that you are very far behind if you don’t shelter everything inside it... ( it’s not like you get tax credits today for contributing a la RRSP)
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https://www.univcan.ca/universities/...by-university/
Good source here. Keep in mind if the kids go to University somewhere else, multiple flights per year, likely including your own and what not. Also, Inflation + 3% would be a reasonable assumption for tuition increases when projecting out the cost.
An RESP, maxed out to receive the grant money, with growth factored in, should have no problem funding an undergrad degree in Calgary.
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I don't think you can use RESP money for flights, can you?
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Absolutely you can. All that is required is proof of enrolment to facilitate an RESP withdrawal. Those could go for anything really as long as it is considered “reasonable” education expenses. Transportation would for sure be included in that.This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
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Does Vegas have any good schools?
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Haha right? The thing is there is no actual list saying funds need to go towards tuition. If you can make the argument the expense was done for education purposes it should be fine. Food, board, books, transportation, laptop, desks etc.This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
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Neat. I thought restrictions were tighter than that. Neato. Don't think any of my kids are going to med school, but maybe welding school.
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There will be far more foreign students in the future, not less. Post secondary loves foreign students because they pay in full. The government subsidies for domestic student are doled out a portion at a time.This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
So if a foreign student drops out, 100% of the tuition is still paid, if a domestic drops out, the subsidy is gone, as well as that seat for the rest of the year.
Don't think it was mentioned but lifetime grant money is $7200, you can get a maximum of $500 per year of that, so it maxes out around age 15 if you start from birth. Your maximum lifetime contribution limit in an RESP is $50k. So if you do the math the max contribution to ensure max grant money is approximately $3334 per year for 15 years, then you are maxed out and got all of the grant that you could get.
The money is taxed at the student's rate when they are in school, so if it's going to primarily education there should be no tax impact.
If you just want to max the grant money it's just $2500/year since its 20% grant ($500).This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
If you want to hit max lifetime contribution, get all the grant money and have max potential growth for RESP you should invest $15000 when opening it, then $2500/year for the next 14 years.
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^^^this is the correct strategy, if you have the means to do it of course.
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Nice, didn't think about topping it up year 1 to max growth.This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
Exactly why I wouldn't have thought of it... lolThis quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote