[Rehab] We are funding and need based financial aid

[Lerone Walker]

everything you stated is essentially correct. rehab only covers the cost if grants/scholarships are unavailable. Financial aid department will not allow students to take out a student loan If rehabilitation services will  provide funding.   

| Lerone Walker

> On Oct 1, 2019, at 11:45 AM, Justin Salisbury via Rehab <rehab at nfbnet.org> wrote:
> 
> 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
> 
> Sent from my iPhone
> 
> Justin Mark Hideaki Salisbury
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