Enrollment Opens for Washington GET Program

Washington’s Guaranteed Education Tuition (GET) program’s enrollment period opened November 1 and provides the opportunity for families with young children to start an account and begin saving for college with the state’s 529 prepaid tuition plan.

The enrollment period runs through May 31, 2015.

The program opened in 1998, and since then, over 157,000 GET accounts have been established to help families escape the weight of rising student debt. The GET fund is now valued at nearly $3 billion.

GET beneficiaries have the freedom to follow their ambitions wherever they choose, as the program can be used at nearly any public or private university, community college, or technical school in the country.

“The key to a successful college savings strategy is to start when your kids are young and save what you can, when you can,” says Betty Lochner, director of the GET program.

The financial health of the program is solid and has continued to improve over the past few years. This year the program has already surpassed its 2021 projected funded status seven years earlier than expected.

GET's new website offers details, charts, planning tools and answers for questions that families may have about the program. Accounts can be opened online, and the GET Contact Center staff is ready to help at 800-955-2318 or by email.