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- adjective With respect to financial or other assistance, derived from need rather than earned by merit.
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Examples
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We need to have need-based financial aid to allow students to attend.
Matthew Yglesias » Third Way: Let’s Stimuluate The Economy Through Permanent Tax Cuts! 2009
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Cost containment needs to accompany an increase in need-based financial aid, and a refundable tax credit is NOT need based.
Matthew Yglesias » Third Way: Let’s Stimuluate The Economy Through Permanent Tax Cuts! 2009
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A good consultant will "advise them about the realities of need-based aid, and give them a realistic picture."
The College-Aid Shuffle Jessica Silver-Greenberg 2012
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While 529 accounts owned by parents are treated as parental assets and don't count as income under federal financial-aid guidelines, schools can set their own rules regarding their own need-based awards.
How to Take Money Out of 529 Plans Jaime Levy Pessin 2011
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This has been crippling, especially for recipients of the Pell grant, the cornerstone need-based federal program providing scholarship aid to 9.2 million students a year.
Guest post: New ED rules get funds to needy students Daniel de Vise 2011
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The administration's 2012 budget would eliminate a handful of programs that have long been targeted by presidents of both parties, including the Leveraging Educational Assistance Partnership Program which provides matching funds to states to encourage them to award need-based financial aid and the Byrd Honors Scholarships.
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That will enable universities to continue their long-standing practice of providing need-based aid so that students from even the least affluent segments of society can attend college.
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That is, tell them they can award need-based federal financial aid only if they award only need-based aid.
How to fix higher education: Doug Bennett, Earlham College Daniel de Vise 2011
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In some cases this may mean higher tuition at public institutions and more money for need-based financial aid.
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If the family expects to qualify for need-based aid and there's a grandparent-owned 529, it may make sense to transfer the ownership of the account to the parent.
How to Take Money Out of 529 Plans Jaime Levy Pessin 2011
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