Financial Aid Process Sucks
I have a scooter that was given to me at least two years ago. It's sitting in the garage, holding some chair cushions. It's missing its key, and its batteries are dead as can be. I need to apply to the NMSS for help to get new batteries. But when I look at the application for aid with equipment I just feel sick. It's not that I don't need the help; it isn't even that I don't deserve the help; it's that the help is so damned difficult to get. I worked there for sixteen years, many of them running the equipment loan/assistance program. Believe me, we didn't used to have people jump through all these hoops to get help. Some hoops, yes, but not as many as they have in place today. Their financial aid application is five pages long! Un-fucking-believable. Well, I don't feel like doing it right now, perhaps I'll get to it much later in the week, because I'll need to amass some specific information first - like my exact income, and which batteries I...