[Rehab] We are funding and need based financial aid

[Justin Salisbury]

Dear colleagues,

A consumer and college student has come to me with a question, and I am seeking your help in finding an answer.

Before people wrongly accuse me of this again, I am going to be extremely clear that this is not somebody from Hawaii. It is not a consumer of the agency where I work. Like any other involved member of the national Federation of the blind, I communicate with people across the country on a regular basis.

This student is hearing from the University financial aid office that the funding from vocational rehabilitation is other need-based aid and that they are retracting the money that they would have given. It appears that both the University and the vocational rehabilitation agency are treating each other‘s need-based aid as comparable benefits and saying that they will not pay because the other must pay. Thus, the student is falling in the middle. Since both entities believe that their funding must come as a last resort, how do we figure out which one takes priority and which one must pay?

Mahalo,

Justin

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Justin Mark Hideaki Salisbury

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