said on March 21, 2010 at 10:03 PM-King 5 News Interview Comment.
To summarize: multiple options are available for spouses of servicemen who desire to go to college. They are free to use FAFSA, like most students do, they are welcome to apply for merit scholarships, they can try and get a job with educational benefits, they can take advantage of MyCAA (although apparently not ALL of them, but many did), plus, apparently, in the future some of their spouses' educational benefits will be applicable to them as well. It sounds, though, that some people are not satisfied with the options that are available (and they have more options than a regular Joe!) and think that they are entitled to more. Why?
I am responding to the above comment.
I love how everyone thinks we want more or feel we deserve more than others. I for one did not qualify for and FAFSA federal aid and neither did my son. I have already addressed that in earlier posts. People make it sound as if I think I should get more then anyone else for college. NOT TRUE. I was promised a grant, and then when it was shut down without notice leaving us all in the lurch I felt it was my right, and obligation to speak out against the shutdown. The DOD should never have started a program that was not equipped to handle ALL MILITARY SPOUSES as the program stated were eligible. ANYONE who got the MyCAA grant, and was eligible for federal aid had to claim this with their school so their financial aid would be reduced dollar for dollar of MyCaa money!!!! Not one person who got the MyCAA grant got one penny more then any other citizen in the U.S.
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