OpinionSnapshot: Aid for Student Aid

Snapshot: Aid for Student Aid

This article was published on October 21, 2016 and may be out of date. To maintain our historical record, The Cascade does not update or remove outdated articles.
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It is the middle of October and I am still waiting for my student loan, the one I applied for in June. I have called consistently for months and got various reasons to what was holding up the application. I was told at first that since I indicated I had a permanent disability, extra forms needed to be filled out by my doctor. Three sets of forms later, I was starting to get annoyed. Then the excuse when I called was that there was a flood of other applications and it would take time to process them all. A month later they were still processing and I was told that calling would not speed up the process. This caused me to feel extremely anxious and frustrated as I was starting school and had no way of paying tuition.

This week I was finally told that there was an error on their end and they would fix it. After now getting my fee deferral extended twice, going without a computer, taking on extra jobs to buy school supplies, saying no to outings with friends, and having to ask family for food, I have been assured that my loan will be deposited sometime in the next week. By this point, I have lost all faith in Student Aid BC’s ability to assist people with disabilities in achieving post-secondary education.

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