Does anyone know if financial aid will cover our parking permits? I want to apply for it ASAP but I don’t think we’ll have our disbursement by then. Also doing TSP and wondering if the TSP aid will cover that.
From what I know parking permits are not covered by financial aid. Those are out of pocket.
If I had one complaint at UCLA, it had to be their parking. Prepare to get your parking application denied. Parking is very limited, faculty, staff and graduate students get priority, and whatever that is left, is the luck of the draw. I had applied for parking 7 or 8 times, I was there and I was denied a few times. Once, I won an appeal, the other was my last quarter, I was initially denied but they called me the second week of the quarter and stated they had a parking pass for me, if I wanted it.
If and when you do get denied, you have to go early and do pay to park sections(I believe it was parking 4 and 7. I have already forgotten :-/ ). Again, parking there is also very limited, so you’ll have to get there between 7-930 because parking fills up quick. Parking will also be 12 dollars a day. Financial aid will not cover that.