You don’t expect your husband to support you but expect taxpayers to give you money? We are not your personal bank either.
When my husband doesn’t really have money he can afford to give me, then where should I get it? Maybe I should use the available resources that the school offers. Would you like me to scan my husbands bank account for you, or is there anything else about our personal finances you’d like to stick your nose in?
I don’t care about your husband’s finances or your relationship with him. We are not your personal bank either. Work or get loans like everyone else or you have to do without like everyone else.
If you were poor, then your tax returns would show that and you’d qualify for a Pell grant. You don’t, so you aren’t needy. The powers that be have determined that your family (you and husband) make more than the cut off line for receiving a Pell grant.
You should be thankful that you, as a family, make enough to support yourself. You don’t wake up every morning and think ‘Hurray, I’m poor. Now I qualify for food stamps!’ do you?
Can you qualify for the AOTC now that you don’t file tax returns separately? (AOTC is not available if your status is ‘married filing separately’) Maybe you’ll get some free government money that way.
You can think it’s hilarious, but you cannot be completely oblivious to societal norms. And one of those norms is that married couples pool their resources. There is no “his” and “hers” for income earned and property acquired during the marriage. If you want to do things differently, that’s your choice . . . but your decision to live “outside the rules” doesn’t change the rules. You’re expected to support each other. If you choose not to do that, and that leaves you unable to attend school, you’re not going to find much sympathy here.
It’s ok for your parents to pay for rent, bills, food and transportation, but not your husband? If he lives there he should pay part of the living expenses.
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None of us think it’s hilarious.
But, we find it outrageous that you think taxpayers, your parents, and anyone else should pay.
If you’ve been working for 15 years that makes you well beyond the “child years”, so getting money from your parents isn’t hilarious either.
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If you want taxpayers’ money, then there are going to be entities sticking their noses into your personal finances. They’re no longer all that “personal” when you’re asking for money.
Well, u shouldn’t be fine w this. Your husband is deriving more favorable tax treatment on his income by filing jointly w you.
You say your parents are now supporting your living expenses instead of your spouse? I’m having a hard time understanding the point of your being married rather than simply living together.
Maybe she shouldn’t have received Pell originally. Wouldn’t she need to have reported the financial help from her parents as untaxed income?
More to the point, was her husband’s income reported? If she qualified for a Pell grant then, even while working, I suspect husband’s income was not reported. I could be mistaken, of course, but if that’s the case, it means the original Pell grant was obtained by means of fraud.
And, yes, I’d agree with M2CK . . . none of us are finding this particularly hilarious.
Yes, but you’re not liking the answer. People who don’t want debt take classes as they can afford them or they get a job.
This makes no sense. Taking out loans isn’t avoiding debt. Working so you can pay for what you want allows you to avoid debt. But you don’t want to hear that, do you? Because your “doing whatever (you) can to avoid debt” doesn’t include working. Your parents might be interested in funding you so you can afford not to work, but US taxpayers aren’t.
Post#29: I assumed she got Pell before she was married. But maybe she incorrectly filed as single and got Pell (and didn’t report assistance from parents on the FAFSA either).
No, she stated in her opening post that she received Pell in 2013 when she was married, but she and husband filed separately:
This statement suggests that husband’s income was not reported on FAFSA for that year because she wanted her Pell grant (which she’d been receiving previously) to continue.
But she also states:
So it appears that husband’s income did get reported, in which case the change in federal aid is simply the result of her quitting her job, as suggested by @DmitriR in [post #9](No more pell grant due to 2014 taxes and marriage - #10 by DmitriR - Financial Aid and Scholarships - College Confidential Forums).
I assumed she got it when single, then in 2013 she got married and the problems (and resentment) started.
As this thread has reached a standstill, it’s time to close.