Financial Aid and Morals?

austinmshauri
Mon, 12 Mar 2018 21:35:14 +0000

I think there have been some pretty harsh posts about the mom without knowing much about her situation other than she lives with her boyfriend and his kids and doesn’t work. Maybe all the kids are little and they’ve agreed she’ll stay home until they’re older. I don’t really know, but we don’t know that she’s freeloading.

I think OP needs to create a budget. Once he does, I think he’ll realize he won’t have much left to give to the girlfriend once all his school expenses are covered unless he gets a job. When he does work he should save as much as he can in case he needs to get a shared apartment. He’s definitely going to need it for his last 2 years of school. Has he said what state he’s in?

It might be to his advantage to open an account and have all his pay and any refunds direct deposited. He may also want to choose electronic statements instead of paper ones. But I think if he wants to stay there any length of time he’s going to have to contribute something to the household.