DES is the food stamp office. What a stroke of luck they also handle student loans.
I guess this means the nuthatch pie shop doesn't pay a living wage.
More then likely they don't--her dumbass just had to show her how to walk through the process of deferring or getting a hardship on the loan--something she could have done herself with a phone call and then use of their fax machine, scanner, and/or email for any requested documentation to the hardship.
Who wants to bet she doesn't even make the 5 bucks a month payment after she gets her hands on those transcripts?
As for the other, still pisses me off. You don't make a move and plan on the taxpayers to get you on your feet. You get on your feet, plan your move, and THEN make the move. I did this as a single woman too in my 20's--moved 2000 miles away to A JOB, AN APARTMENT, My FIANCEE, etc--without taxpayers assistance and his financial assistance was minimal. I would bet I was far more green then her in those days and still managed to do it without burdening the taxpayers of the country. And I was flexible with the plan changing if I could not gain employment to the place I was moving to but thankfully that was not an issue. And she's got all the room in the world for flexibility. I have kids rooted in a community now--what I wouldn't give for that kind of flexibility now as I have restarted my career over the last few years. But no...she's got a dream and the rest of us must fund it after the move is made instead of her showing some delayed gratification and self-control and SAVING for that move on her own. Hell, even if she didn't have a job, she could have easily put away a couple thousand bucks and probably even unearned tax money on her return and moved in the spring and just rented a room and hit the trail for work and at least got a similar job initially. There was ZERO reason for taxpayers to fund this if she had just waited her big hind end for the right opportunity based on her own savings and planning to move there on her own dime. This was no emergency that required assistance; this was chosen destitution. ****ing leech!