Sorry about all that template updating yesterday. I wanted to try out a new theme, but blogsome is somewhat limiting in what themes are available, so I was hand coding everything trying to make the page pretty and compliant. But I think I sent out a million updates. So…sorry to the 2 of you that read this blog.
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I will be getting a $900 check from my university. One of the many reasons I quit my FT old job in 2006 was because I wanted to be elligible for grants to help me with my tuition (I am too dumb to get scholarships and after writing about 50 essays in 2005 and not getting anything I was a bit frustrated). I wanted to make less money. The job was also stressful and I was dealing with annoying and unethical people, but that’s a different story. I began working part time for 6 months in 2006 so when I completed my FAFSA form in 2007 for aid in 2007, I was elligible for more aid than I was in previous years which was none.
I got 2 grants (free money). One from PHEAA (Pennsylvania Higher Education Assistance Agency) and one from my university. However in 2007, my husband and I were making even less money. So in March of 2007 I filed an amended form (I forget what it was called) and sent it to PHEAA saying in a nutshell: I am even poorer please give me more money. I used our paystubs and bank statements as documentation. One of the reasons I wanted grants was because I wanted to limit the amount of loans I took out. In October last year, PHEAA sent me a letter asking me to verify that I was still making the amount I claimed in March. Since my husband had begun a new job, I sent a letter stating that our projected income was going to be higher than was previously stated. I sent in pay stubs and a spreadsheet with our salary projections as documentation and worried that I was going to get fined or somehow punished.
However, last week I got an email from my university saying that I had been approved for more money by PHEAA and that they were giving me an additional $900 to be applied to last semester’s tuition. But I am not in school so this would result in a refund check. I am so happy. I am going to put the entire check into my student loan payment (the unsubsidized part).
