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Harrisburg, PA - The Pennsylvania Higher Education Assistance Agency (PHEAA) and the Pennsylvania Treasury Department together are encouraging families to consider saving with the PA 529 Guaranteed Savings Plan (GSP). This is a smart way to save early for future education expenses and receive tax advantages, including a PA state income tax deductions for contributions. Your savings can be used toward postsecondary tuition, room and board, books, and more at many colleges, universities, career, vocational, and technical schools, and certain apprenticeship programs.

Wilkes-Barre, PA - Today, Congressman Matt Cartwright (PA-08), Congressman Dan Meuser (PA-09), and Pennsylvania Treasurer Stacy Garrity met with officials at the Wilkes-Barre VA Medical Center and urged them to improve the treatment of veterans at the facility.

Washington, PA - Pennsylvania Treasurer Stacy Garrity and Washington County Commissioner Chairman Diana Irey Vaughan announced today that more than $46,000 in unclaimed property has been returned to Washington County.

Harrisburg, PA - Treasurer Stacy Garrity today congratulated the General Assembly and Governor Shapiro for expanding Pennsylvania’s Property Tax/Rent Rebate Program and encouraged eligible residents to apply now for the 2023 rebate.

Harrisburg, PA - Treasurer Stacy Garrity today announced that asset-based fees will be waived for PA 529 Guaranteed Savings Plan (GSP) account owners for the second consecutive fiscal year. Fee waivers, resulting in a savings of $5.5 million for account owners, will be funded by PA 529 GSP surplus earnings. In total, PA 529 fee cuts made by Treasurer Garrity will have saved account owners more than $11 million by the end of Fiscal Year 2023-24.

Harrisburg, PA - Treasurer Stacy Garrity and James M. Zugay, Recorder of Deeds in Dauphin County and President of the Pennsylvania Recorders of Deeds Association (PRODA), today reminded Pennsylvania veterans to register their military discharge paperwork with their local recorder of deeds office.

Bucks County, PA - More than $200,000 worth of unclaimed property was returned to residents of Bucks County recently at events featuring Treasurer Stacy Garrity, Senator Frank Farry, and Representatives Joe Hogan, Kristin Marcell and K.C. Tomlinson.