Financial Aid Fault

The Fault in our Financial Aid Process Thousands of people dedicate their life to working in the financial aid field, and billions of people are sent financial aid daily; nevertheless, the system has flaws that must be modified. Financial aid is sent out to millions of people who do not use the money in the intended manner who, consequently, are stealing from our government. Government financial aid should be more strongly based on GPA, how many hours have been admitted into a job or career, community service hours, etc., because it would prevent the government from providing financial aid to individuals who are inadequate. Nevertheless, government financial aid is predominantly helpful to millions of people all over the world with thousands …show more content…
Before providing financial aid to a student, the government should take into consideration several points. The first point that must change within the financial aid process is the information that is submitted within the application. We must do away with the minimal information about the individual applying; by doing this, the students whom have put in hundreds of hours of work throughout their high school, and middle school, career will be able to file their personal records and receive the correct amount of government financial aid. Nonetheless, by doing this, there will be no elimination of government financial loans to others whom have not worked an equal amount; however, it will help place the student who is paying for their own college in the correct realm of student aid amounts. Another observation that must be taken is the number of students traveling to other countries and if these students are making a large enough impact on our education system that we must enhance our government financial aid process in order to cater to those students whom are seeking an education from outside of the United States. Government student financial aid is the backbone to millions of students all over the world, in copious cases, students would be unable to attend college without it; so, we must enhance …show more content…
In fact, the system has so many faults that comedies are made about how easy it is to scam the system in order to receive different forms of aid. Disability payments have thousands of scams yearly, which accordingly, is stealing government finances for the laziness of the American people who choose to cheat the system in this way. Nonetheless, disability fraud is a serious issue that must have a solution. One way to eliminate the fraud among disability charges is to enforce a changed work style in order to pay for the money that they are receiving from the government. Nonetheless, this can create problems among those Americans that are deserving of this paycheck. Another way to prevent scammers from misusing the disability financial aid system is to audit the history of the worker. By analyzing different areas of their background, like how long they were working before the incident occurred, if similar incidents have occurred during the workers’ previous jobs that has provided he or she with a disability check, and if the worker is relying on the disability check as a main source of income, the government can redirect the injured worker with different sources of disability claims to a safer job where there is little to no heavy or dangerous equipment. By redirecting this worker, the government can place them in a job that they will receive the