\ Married-student housing has one-year wait
IBy Jennifer O’Cilka
Staff Reporter
Married University of Nebraska-Lincoln
students seeking campus housing and financial
aid may have some difficulty.
Dee Borg, UNL Student Family/Faculty
Housing, said students who are considering
marriage should sign up for married student
housing soon, because there is a one-year wait
ing list.
However, Borg said there are some advan
tages that accompany the wait for married
student housing. All living units are close to
campus, about a block from shuttle buses be
tween the twocampuses, and they offer couples
an all-student community.
When married students live in a complex
with other married students, they understand
each other’s needs, Borg said.
The university has apartments located close
to East Campus in the University Park Apart
ments and several duplexes and four-plexes on
Starr St.
Borg said one, two and three bedroom apart
ments are available to married full-time stu
dents and their spouses and to students who are
single parents.
Currently, students can rent one bedroom
apartments at University Park for $269 includ
ing utilities. Two bedroom apartments cost
about $300 a month. Two bedrooms in the du
plexes or four-plexes cost $305 plus gas and
electricity and three bedrooms cost $330 plus
gas and electricity, Borg said.
Borg said all apartments are unfurnished
except for a stove and refrigerator.
Because the university-owned apartments
are full year-round, Borg said she can’t show
the apartments to anyone, but pictures and
floor plans arc available.
John Beacon, director of admissions and
scholarships and financial aid, said getting
married doesn’t mean a student will receive
more financial aid.
If the students fill out their aid forms before
they get married and are still claimed as a
dependent on their parents’ federal tax form,
Beacon said they will not be considered mar
ried when aid is distributed.
In order for two full-time students to re
ceive the financial aid married students would,
Beacon said they have to be dropped from their
parents’ taxes as dependents and must be mar
ried when they fill out financial aid applica
tions.
If students are not married when they fill out
aid applications, but are planning to be mar
ried, they still must report their current status,
Beacon said. That status will not change during
the year, he said.
If a couple plans to marry during the sum
mer, Beacon said, they cannot wait until after
they arc married to fill out financial aid appli
cations for next fall, because “priority stu
dents” must submit applications by March 1.
“The couple will have to weigh that against
waiting until summer to be married,” he said.
Beacon said two full-time students who arc
married when they fill out applications could
receive more financial aid grants rather than
loans.
However, Beacon said, if a student’s spouse
is fully employed, it is likely that the student
still may not be eligible for financial aid.
Beacon said the Educational Planning Cen
ter, 13000 St., has information about the kinds
of financial aid available to married students.
The couple should take their budget figures
to the planning center to receive an estimate of
how much they will receive, Beacon said.
Cynthia Rivera, director of the planning
center, said students considering marriage come
to the center because computers can estimate
their financial aid eligibility.
Rivera said if the couple wanted to wait
until after March 1 to be married, the center
would run an estimate of the aid they would
receive if they filed before the priority deadline
as a dependent and if they waited to file until
after they were married.
If the student won’t be eligible as a depend
ent, Rivera said, it may be beneficial to miss
the priority deadline.
But wailing too long to apply for aid can
force the student into borrowing more money,
because most loan money already will have
been distributed, Rivera said.
Beacon said that after consulting with the
planning center, the couple can make an ap
pointment with UNL’s financial aid office to
discuss available aid.
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