Our families may use credit cards for cash back, airline miles or other inducements, how is scrip a better deal?
This one is easy. Scrip, by far, is a better value for your spending dollar than Discover card cash back bonus or any airline credit card you can use. Take for instance the 1% cash back bonus of Discover. If a member family spends $20,000.00 annually in Discover card purchases on its anniversary date the family will get a check for $200. If, however, that family made those same purchases (to the extent it can) with scrip that family will have made an average of 5% and will have generated $1,000.00 in tuition assistance. As to any airline card, other than Southwest Airlines, it takes at least 24,000 miles, (or $24,000 charged dollars) to get even one contiguous United States round-trip ticket (during off-peak travel season). That same $24,000.00 in expenditures translates into $1,200.00 in tuition assistance. That is more than enough to purchase several round-trip airline tickets.
