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The government grants play a very important role in helping people who have financial problems. Due to the financial aid, some people may incautiously believe some kind of tricky scam. So you must be careful when opening yourself up to finding a grant. There are many scam artists out in the world and they are waiting for anyone possibly will bite the lure. During your searching for the grants you must practice common sense and be proactive. Here is some Information on preventing yourself from getting scammed through grants:

The first and the most important principle is grant is free and grant information is free too! You could choose to pay for help with a grant, but make you are paying for their service but not giving you free information. You can access free grant information on the internet. What you need to do is to open your computer and be on internet. Then fill some key words you can find the free grant information. In another hand, if you opt to buy a service I strongly suggest checking with several of the anti-scam websites first.

There are some common tricky set up on the internet. One of the most common trickiness is to pay to submit a grant application. So if you are proactive, please don’t pay to submit a grant application. If you are asked to pay for a application fee, obviously it is a scam. And the fee varies depending on the type of grant you are applying for. It may be required for you to show you have financial resources to cover expenses that the grant does not cover. And you will pay more money for that project and gain nothing. That’s why the scam are so boring.

People usually don’t like the application procedure because the application process for government grants is usually lengthy. Bad guys use the weakness to allure those people who is not patient enough. So if someone shows up and tells you within a week that you have been chosen for a government grant, it is most likely a scam. It’s often take few weeks for the government officers to give a grant.

The government gives the grant to you for helping you out of the difficulties not for hunting you down. The government will not make the grant profitable and get some goods from the grant. There is always a call which said they can award you a grant only if you just pay $50 for a process fee. If you are precaution you can smell a scam. Even there is a case that someone did not submit an application for a government grant before. But one day he received a call claimed that you have been awarded one government grant. It’s obviously a scam.

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You have seen many online ads offering access to government grants you can use to consolidate debt? Be very careful, though the government has many programs to help people solve their debt problems, there is not such thing as debt consolidation grants as this contradicts the whole idea of consolidation. If you are offered such programs, you are probably facing nothing but a scam.

Consolidating debt is a process that consists on replacing expensive and/or short term debt with cheap debt with longer repayment programs. Basically, consolidation can be achieved either by negotiating with creditors new loan terms or by obtaining a loan that meets the above guidelines (cheaper and/or longer term) to repay outstanding debt.

Thus, getting a government grant in order to eliminate debt can never be “debt consolidation”. Besides, it is very unlikely that the government would destine money to repay someone’s debt with no guarantee whatsoever that the borrower will not apply for new loans or credit cards.

Government Grants

A government grant is an endowment awarded by government agencies to individuals and organizations that meet certain requirements. Government grants are meant for assisting those who are underprivileged or have special needs. Someone who is deeply in debt does not necessarily have to qualify for a grant for the sole reason of being in debt.

Government grants are offered for those who want to buy their first home, to those who are starting a business and need finance in order to make everything work, to those who want to investigate on certain fields that the government has a particular interest on developing, etc.

Specific Requirements

In order to apply for a government grant you need to meet specific requirements that each grant type has as a qualifying criteria. So, as you can see, offering grants for debt consolidation widely, to anyone that wants to apply has no other purpose than to take advantage of people’s financial difficulties. That financial aid cannot be provided by those who claim they can.

And that’s the main reason why you need to bewargovernment grantsies that offer that kind of service. There are many legit online companies offering access to information, links and thorough explanations on government grants. Sometimes they even offer copies of the application forms and models of letters that need to be sent to government agencies. However, none of these companies will claim to offer consolidation through government grants. If they do, you should steer clear of them since chances are you are probably facing a scam.

There Are Trustworthy Government And Private Online Sites

If you are alert enough, you have nothing to worry about. You can do a thorough investigation by searching the net for government grants and read all the information that online sites provide. You will be able to find the government agencies’ sites and private sites too. Within these sites you will be able to find all you need to know to apply for a government grant and as long as you follow the previous advice and be wary of consolidation grants you will not be taken in.

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Sallie Mae was the _only_ financial lender involved in the diploma mill fraud… and now ask Congress for a bail out??

GO TO GOOGLE AND RESEARCH THESE 2 THINGS:
1. Westwood Diploma Mill Scam
2. 60 Minutes Sallie Mae Fraud

Students say college misled them
Tuesday, February 22, 2005, By BYRON HARRIS / WFAA-TV
“The sales pitch said Westwood is accredited; students said that led them to believe the school has the same academic status as well-known colleges and universities. But the sales pitch doesn’t mention the fine print on the back of the contract, which said “Westwood College of Technology makes no guarantee of credit transfer.” In fact, these students found that when they presented their Westwood transcripts to other schools, the reaction was anything but positive.”You can just keep this … because we don’t recognize this institution as a school,” Moers recalled one school’s representative as saying. Westwood is headquartered in Denver, and claims it’s been around for more than 50 years. However, Colorado state incorporation records indicate the current owner began business in 1986. …talk with News 8 about complaints against the school, but when a crew got there for our scheduled interview, two representatives from the home office met them outside. “We just received notice that we’re going to be preparing for some litigation,” one of those representatives said, refusing to allow the News 8 crew to go inside. 67 former students have just sued Westwood College and its parent corporation for deceptive trade practices and breach of contract. “It’s blatant fraud,” Johnson said. “The school sold them a bill of goods; not only do they have more debt, but they spent a lot of time wasted and they have a degree that they cannot use.”Westwood officials said the school does not gurarantee employment. They also said the college is accredited, and said the school is eager for a face-to-face interview – which has not yet happened.”
“Westwood is expensive, from $27,000 to $34,000 for about a year and a half of classes. That’s as much as a year’s tuition at Harvard, or four years at UT-Austin. Brazell said. “We were trained to make them ‘feel their pain.’” And pain is what Katrina Vargas, a single mom, felt after completing her degree at Westwood. “Now I’m a single mother, still, and I’m in so much debt,” Vargas said. “I have marks on my credit, I can’t pay for my daughter’s needs … my mom has to help me.” “I got people in financial jeopardy rather than getting into a career,” Brazell said. “They made bets with me on how many students I would enroll.”
Students say college misled them, WFAA News, Byron Harris
~ http://wfaa.com/s/dws/wfaa/bharris/stories/wfaa050221_am_westwood.cf8856f9.html

The Have Nots and The Haves…

“While former students are being extorted by Sallie Mae into indentured servitude for the rest of their lives, and even paltry Social Security checks are being seized by Sallie Mae’s collection agencies, Albert Lord, CEO of SALLIE MAE, is bidding on purchasing sports teams, building his own private golf course, and awarding himself and his number two man literally hundreds of millions of dollars in salary and stock bonuses…”
~ http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=364×1125791

Sallie Mae did not bother to notify students they were being charged a whopping 20,000+ for one year, through federal student loans program (FAFSA). $20,000 + for just one year toward a worthless certificate that is not even accepted by legitimate Colleges/University.

Sallie Mae doesn’t care about law… after numerous requests for forbearance forms, Sallie Mae has refused to send them. They promised back in November 2008… but failed to do so, when I made attempts to work out something to pay them. THEY REFUSE TO DISCUSS FORBEARANCE FORMS WHICH IS ILLEGAL. Instead, I have the emails where they simply sent more harrassment. In November 2008 (knowing they’d already conned me out of $20,000 through student loans) I gave them my bank routing and account number, and they proceeded to debit 2.5x the amount. I filed complaint with my bank, and they advised to open a new bank account. They said legitimate financial institutions do not do what Sallie Mae did — breach of contract, withdrawing 2 and a half times the agreed amount.
http://www.fight-westwood.blogspot.com/

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How to get small business grants that you never have to repay. There’s billions of dollars in free money from the government and private foundations available today. Start up funding, expand your current business, or get free financing for your invention.

http://www.govfunds.info

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Get free government grants by searching the database and submitting your applications. Just see how many federal funding programs there are that allow you to get free money. This is totally crazy!

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