Published on August 8, 2005 By thimblebrook In Welcome
I have just recently applied for Pell Grant. I am returning to school after taking several years off. Well I just recently found out that I am not registered for Selective Severice, so they say even though I have my card. This means that I am not eligible for government aid to go to school, even though I have my card. So the agency that is set up to draft all us fine, straping young lads, can't keep up with my info. This is okay with me because I cannot be drafted, but I also cannot recive government aid to go to school. Which brings me to my next point, the almighty Pell Grant. I recently found out that they lowered the amount of money you can make to get said grant. Now I will make about 12000 dollars this year, then take away my 3600 for child support and I am left with around 8400 that the government counts. This may be to much money. So I am left with a choice; not going to school(which the U.S. government wants and needs higher educated people), stop paying child support(that would put me in jail, and be morally wrong), or take out student loans(just do I can get deeper in debt, so far this is the best opion), or quit working(which would make me not able to pay my child support, and increase my debt). Just as a sidebar to this rant; does anyone else think it weird that when they lowered the amount of money for Pell, that they raised the G.I. Bill to help soldiers get into school. And no, I do not dislike soldiers. They do a job that I could never do, so if you are a soldier you have my full support in what you are doing.
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on Aug 09, 2005
I thought if you were over 26, you didn't have to register anyway...that's fuckin' weird...how the hell do you have a draft card if you aren't registered???

and if anybody thinks people can go to school on $8400/year then I want some of what they are smoking...on second thought, no I don't because it obviously makes them fucking stupid...

cheers, mate, talk to you soon...
on Sep 13, 2005
I don't ever remember getting a draft card.. I had to register back when I was 18... never came up again, even with financial aid.. I always just checked the box that I was already registered.... as well as I thought that it didn't apply past 24 to 26 years old.

(Yeah I know it's a late reply, I don't come to JoeUser often enough)