Marywood University to Host ABLE Act Press Conference and Resource Fair Senator Robert Casey Scheduled to Speak

Marywood University will host the Pennsylvania Achieving a Better Life Experience (ABLE) Act Anniversary event on Friday, April 20, 2018, from 8:30 a.m. to 11 a.m. at the Nazareth Student Center, in the Latour Room. Between 9:30 – 10:30 a.m., Senator Robert Casey and the Pennsylvania Treasury Department will give a Press Conference on the Pennsylvania ABLE Act. The press conference and anniversary celebration with a resource fair are free and open to the public.

Modeled after college savings accounts, the ABLE Act Amends Section 529 of the Internal Revenue Service Code of 1986 to create tax-advantaged savings accounts for individuals with disabilities. These tax-advantaged savings accounts can be used to cover qualified disability expenses such as, but not limited to: Education, and housing and transportation. ABLE accounts allow individuals, with qualifying disabilities, and their families to save for a wide range of disability-related expenses.

For additional information about the Press Conference with Senator Robert Casey and representatives of the Pennsylvania Treasury Department, or the Anniversary Celebration and Resource Fair, please call Ann H. O’Neill, assistant director of conference and events services at Marywood University, at (570) 348-6211, ext. 2595, or email ahoneill@marywood.edu.