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To: GottaLuvAkitas1

Here's the crock. The gov't looks at the parents income to determine grants and loans for the student. Why? The parents are no longer required to support that adult, so why look at their income?


5 posted on 02/13/2007 10:12:42 AM PST by for-q-clinton (If at first you don't succeed keep on sucking until you do succeed)
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To: for-q-clinton

They did that 30 years ago when I went to school. I didn't qualify for the BEOG (replaced I believe by the Pell Grant) because my parents owned their home. It didn't matter that I had 6 younger brothers and sisters living at home.


13 posted on 02/13/2007 10:15:17 AM PST by pgkdan (Tolerance is the virtue of the man without convictions - G.K. Chesterton)
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To: for-q-clinton

The trick is to have them move into an apartment and become self supporting, if you want them to really be considered on their own.

I know it sucks...


15 posted on 02/13/2007 10:15:37 AM PST by Mr. K (Some days even my lucky rocketship underpants don't help)
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To: for-q-clinton
The otherwise execrable movie Soul Man had a quote on this subject. "She told me they have support for people whose parents are poor, but not for those whose parents are #$$holes."
94 posted on 02/13/2007 11:01:28 AM PST by amchugh
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