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Achieve Montana is a 529 Plan designed to help individuals and families save for college in a tax-advantaged way. Its benefits include: tax-deferred growth, generous contribution limits and investment options that invest in mutual funds and other investments from Blackrock Fund Advisors, Dimensional Fund Advisors, Charles Schwab Investment Management, New York Life Insurance Company, and the Vanguard Group.

About Achieve Montana

Higher education is the key to helping children move toward their future dreams and goals. That’s why it is so important to start a plan now to save for tomorrow’s college costs. Achieve Montana has been developed to give families like yours an affordable and simple, yet effective way to save for college with benefits.

Tax-deferred growth, generous contribution limits and investment options that invest in mutual funds and other investments from leading investment firms including Blackrock Fund Advisors, Dimensional Fund Advisors, Charles Schwab Investment Management, New York Life Insurance Company, and the Vanguard Group. Higher education is the key to helping children move toward their future dreams and goals. That’s why it is so important to start a plan now to save for tomorrow’s college costs.

Contributions you make to Achieve Montana may be eligible as a yearly deduction of up to $3,000 per taxpayer per year ($6,000 for those married, filing jointly) from adjusted gross income in computing Montana state income tax. To be eligible, the contribution must be made to your account, an account owned by your spouse, on an account owned by your child or stepchild if your child or stepchild is a Montana resident.*

*Contributions may be subject to recapture in certain circumstances, such as a federal non-qualified withdrawal, rollovers to another state’s 529 plan, a Roth IRA rollover, or a withdrawal from an account that was opened within one year prior to the date of the withdrawal, as described in the Program Description. (Recaptured Withdrawal). If the account owner is no longer a Montana resident at the time of a Recaptured Withdrawal, we may withhold the potential recapture tax from the Recaptured Withdrawal.

Please read the Program Description for additional information. You can also reach our Client Service Representatives by email at clientservice@achievemontana529.com or by phone at 1-877-486-9271, Monday through Friday from 7 a.m. to 6 p.m., Mountain Time.

For more information about Achieve Montana, call 877.486.9271 or download an Enrollment Kit. The Enrollment Kit includes a Program Description that discusses investment objectives, risks, charges, expenses, and other important information; read and consider it carefully before investing.
If you are not a Montana taxpayer, before investing in Achieve Montana, you should consider the benefits of your home state’s qualified tuition program. It may provide taxpayers with state tax and other benefits such as financial aid, scholarship funds and protection from creditors, that are only available through your home state’s qualified tuition program. You should also consult your financial, tax, or other advisor to learn how state-based benefits (or limitations) would apply to your specific circumstances. Tax and other penalties may apply to non-qualified withdrawals.
Keep in mind that state-based benefits should be one of many appropriately weighted factors to be considered when making an investment decision. In addition, you should periodically assess, and if appropriate, adjust your Section 529 Plan investment choices with your time horizon, risk tolerance and investment objectives in mind.
Achieve Montana is sponsored by the State of Montana and administered by the Montana Board of Regents of Higher Education, as sole trustee of the Montana Family Education Savings Trust (Trust). Ascensus College Savings Recordkeeping Services, LLC serves as program manager and provides recordkeeping and administrative support services for Achieve Montana. Blackrock Fund Advisors, Dimensional Fund Advisors LP, Charles Schwab Investment Management, Inc., New York Life Insurance Company and the Vanguard Group, Inc. each provide investment management services for the underlying investments comprising Achieve Montana’s portfolios. Although some of the portfolios invest in mutual funds, they are not mutual funds. When you invest in Achieve Montana, you are purchasing portfolio units issued by the Trust. Except to the extent of the New York Life Insurance Company guarantee that is available for the Capital Preservation Portfolio and certain Year of Enrollment Portfolios, investment returns are not guaranteed, and you could lose money by investing in Achieve Montana. Account owners assume all investment risks as well as responsibility for any federal and state tax consequences.
Upromise is an optional service offered by Upromise, Inc., is separate from Achieve Montana, and is not affiliated with the State of Montana. Terms and conditions apply to the Upromise service. Participating companies, contribution levels, and terms and conditions are subject to change at any time without notice. Transfers from Upromise to an Achieve Montana account are subject to a minimum amount. Go to upromise.com to learn more about Upromise. 
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