That's the question that we have been having to ask ourselves for six weeks now and the answer is yes. The bad part is that the people at the college are treating us as if we are crazy. We sent in our paper work for our son's fasfa but when we took the paper work in to prove our income the college finance took one look at my husbands disability income and corrected it in our favor because they felt we had made a mistake.
I can understand why they felt we had made an error because the letter does make it appear that we had less income than we really did. For this reason they are trying to give us not only a full pell grant, but something called a smart grant. The criteria for a Smart Grant are:
1. That you qualify for a pell grant.
2. That you make a grade point average of 3.o or more.
3. That you be a third year student.
4. That you major in one of the engineering, science, or math fields.
This grant is worth over 4,000 dollars and the pell grant is worth over 2,000. We sure could use it. Between that and the money we already have, it would totally pay for his schooling; if it were our money to spend. But it's not. Every time we try to correct it they ignore us and act like we are insane because we keep trying to get rid of this money.
We are at a point were we are so frustrated that we would like to say fine then we'll keep it but what would we be teaching our children? Besides the bible say not to grow weary of doing good and that our sin is sure to find us out. How could we keep it? On the other hand we are fast approaching a point where we wont have a choice. They have already dumped the money in his bursar account. While our son has to tell the school if he is willing to accept a loan or scholarship he has no choice where grants are concerned. If they say he qualifies he has to accept it.
On the other hand when they finally realize that he doesn't get the money then they will want it back. So we have to just let the money sit in his account and somehow not let them spend it. Mean while my very Type A son is starting to bounce off the walls in frustration. Some days I'm ready for a rubber room myself. Who ever thought that trying to do the right thing by giving money back would be so hard.
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The schools have an incentive to give away these grants. Congress appropriated the funds and if the school does NOT give the grants to all eligible students then they can get in trouble. What you have received is tax money -- and if you don't feel right spending it on your child's education, then why don't you put it to good use like donating it to a worthy charity or a worthy student organization at his school?
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