by "R Saldana [|Oo|======|oO|] - BTC/ETH/LTC Prophet" (r-saldana)
Published 09/12/2017 at 14:43
by "R Saldana [|Oo|======|oO|] - BTC/ETH/LTC Prophet" (r-saldana)
Published 09/12/2017 at 14:43
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Campus I attend is registered as a “satellite” campus and not as a “guest” campus. Meaning your VA certification goes through the main campus which is located in a meth-epidemic recovering shell of a city that remains after the Saturn plant was shut down long ago.
This campus denotation creates an almost $700 delta in housing allowance. I attend a campus in a well-to-do location because I live in that well-to-do campus locations county. I do this instead of going to one of the full-bore state schools due to proximity to work and home.
Also pictured my reaction to this news: (credit: Ramblin)
Not pictured: dramatic weightloss that RSaldana endures so that his family’s needs are met.
Wife says it will take too long and detract from my full time job if I were to start applying for fast food/coffee shop jobs. Guess I will be rolling the dice on whether or not I will get killed working some jobs from gig.com....
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0:37 if timestamp gets kinja’d
"benjrblant" (benjblant)
09/12/2017 at 14:47, STARS: 1
Star for IT Crowd reference.
"wiffleballtony" (wiffleballtony)
09/12/2017 at 14:54, STARS: 0
This is a combination of laughing and sighing all at the same time.
"TheRealBicycleBuck" (therealbicyclebuck)
09/12/2017 at 15:45, STARS: 0
These are things which can usually be worked out if you go talk to people and explain the situation.
Full disclosure: I suffered for a time as a student and a husband and a father and learned that talking to the bean counters usually helped. Also, I used to work at one of these fine institutions. The things they can do when they have a mind to bend the rules are somewhat appalling.
"R Saldana [|Oo|======|oO|] - BTC/ETH/LTC Prophet" (r-saldana)
09/12/2017 at 16:00, STARS: 0
So far after discussion with VA edu staff and university staff no joy. My approach is going to be at the Veteran students meeting next week, “fix this or I transfer after one semester”. (in actuality I will just go ahead and transfer anyway, but at least maybe I can help out other Vets)
"TheRealBicycleBuck" (therealbicyclebuck)
09/12/2017 at 16:19, STARS: 0
Good luck with it. Sometimes it’s hard to find someone willing to help. A lot of those folks are fairly jaded after years of dealing with obnoxious parents.
"R Saldana [|Oo|======|oO|] - BTC/ETH/LTC Prophet" (r-saldana)
09/12/2017 at 16:22, STARS: 0
It’s free money, so fuck them if they don’t want to help.
"InFierority Complex" (lanciere)
09/12/2017 at 16:27, STARS: 1
The VA monthly housing allowance is based off the ZIP code of your main campus/ administration in this case. There probably isn’t much that can be done, unfortunately.
"TheRealBicycleBuck" (therealbicyclebuck)
09/12/2017 at 16:31, STARS: 0
It’s free money to you, it’s extra paperwork for them.
Nobody likes extra paperwork!
"R Saldana [|Oo|======|oO|] - BTC/ETH/LTC Prophet" (r-saldana)
09/15/2017 at 09:13, STARS: 0
Yep, learned that this week unfortunately. Time to transfer at the end of semester.