[nfbmi-talk] means Test and College Policy in Response toImportantLetter

[joe harcz Comcast]

You got tht right!
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Marcus Simmons" <MarcusSimmons at comcast.net>
To: "NFB of Michigan Internet Mailing List" <nfbmi-talk at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Thursday, June 24, 2010 8:31 PM
Subject: Re: [nfbmi-talk] means Test and College Policy in Response 
toImportantLetter


> You can't give up. This is exactly what MCB wants us to do. It took me 4 
> years to get my laptop and it cost MCB more to keep my case open than the 
> equipment cost. Then my counselor quit! Don't play into their trap.
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Elizabeth" <lizmohnke at hotmail.com>
> To: <nfbmi-talk at nfbnet.org>
> Sent: Thursday, June 24, 2010 1:58 PM
> Subject: [nfbmi-talk] means Test and College Policy in Response to 
> ImportantLetter
>
>
>
> Hello Joe,
>
> Thanks for the full version of the regulation. I already posted the part 
> about Social Security benefits in a comment that I submitted for Monday's 
> meeting. So as the saying goes, been there, done that, and got the tee 
> shirt to prove it. Or in this case, I should probably say that I got the 
> recording to prove it. It seems to me that no matter what argument we use 
> to refute the use of the new DELEG financial needs form, the agency always 
> seems to have a counter argument as to why it needs to be included in the 
> policy. During the meeting on Monday, they said it was not a means test, 
> but rather a tool that the counselors can use when providing services to 
> college students. They also said that the financial aid offices at the 
> college or university would be able to complete the form in a timely 
> manner because they are already use to filling out this form since it is 
> used by Michigan Rehabilitation Services. However, from what I can tell by 
> reading through their policy, Michigan Rehabilitation Services appears to 
> use this form as a part of the means test they use for providing services 
> to college students.
>
> I tried voicing my concern about whether or not the financial aid offices 
> will actually be able to fill out this form in a timely manner given the 
> recent increase of students requesting financial aid. I also mentioned the 
> fact that I typically do not receive anything in writing from my financial 
> aid office until classes have already started or just before classes 
> start. It did not seem as though these comments were taken seriously 
> because it is the job of the financial aid office to fill out these forms. 
> And it was somehow my fault that the college did not have enough time to 
> send me a letter notifying me that I was eligible to receive financial aid 
> even though I typically fill out the forms in March or April. It was like 
> they had an answer for everything and that my experience was somehow 
> invalid because it did not fit into what they knew to be true.
>
> So I am at a loss as to what to do next. It seems as though nothing I ever 
> do or say ever really gets through to them, and I am tired of banging my 
> head up against a brick wall trying to figure it out. I am tired of simply 
> arguing with the Michigan Commission for the Blind all of the time. If 
> they would put as much time and energy into working with consumers and 
> providing services as they do arguing against us and creating barriers for 
> obtaining services, then we would probably have one of the best vocational 
> rehabilitation agencies for the blind in the country. If anyone else has 
> any ideas, I would love to hear them. The new DELEG financial needs form 
> is attached to this message for anyone who would like to read it.
>
> Elizabeth
>
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