• jet@hackertalks.com
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    In the USA the FASFA is used to determine how much financial aid (grants, or zero interest loans) someone can get for university

    Unfortunately it looks at parents assets as well as the adult students assets.

    Unless

    • over the age of 25
    • military veteran
    • married

    So the loop hole here is obvious, two students should get married, then their financial need will be totally unmet and get the highest level of benefits

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      I know someone who had to do this. Her parents were abusive and were refusing to do the FASFA paperwork, holding it over her head for something. She had already been in college a couple of years at this point. So, she found a friend she trusted and they got married, allowing her to get the funding she needed to continue to attend college.

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      I’m fr curious if this can work. If it does, it seems beyond impossible to find a 25 year old college woman who would even want to marry

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        Two 18 year old students about to start university get married. I think it can even be same sex, marriage is marriage.

        Remember Marriage isn’t for life! You and your partner could get married with the understanding this is just a college marriage.

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            A loop hole that is technically correct is still correct.

            What is the purpose of marriage?

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              Two people bound together for life for the purposes of creating a family

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                Yeah, you can miss me with the religious bullshit. This is a legal loophole in a legal system.

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                  If it was for religious reasons, I would have specified it as a “man and a woman”

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                    Then what is your basis for it only being between two people? You’re defining it just like religion does because that’s where you got the idea even if you don’t realize it.

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                Only two? That seems needlessly restrictive. Is it for religious reasons? Church and state should be separated.

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                  If it was for religious reasons, I would have specified it as a “man and a woman”

                  Also, if it’s more than two, that’s not a marriage; that’s a group chat.