{"id":4873,"date":"2012-02-28T22:13:48","date_gmt":"2012-02-29T06:13:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lee.org\/blog\/?p=4873"},"modified":"2012-07-28T15:03:47","modified_gmt":"2012-07-28T22:03:47","slug":"fafsa-done","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/2012\/02\/28\/fafsa-done\/","title":{"rendered":"FAFSA Done"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You didn&#8217;t think I did my taxes early because I&#8217;m just a good person did you?<\/p>\n<p>Do <strong>taxes<\/strong>, so I can fill out my <strong>FAFSA<\/strong>, so I can apply for <strong>loans and grants<\/strong> for school. Yipe, the spring application deadline for CalGrants is in 3 days, Friday. But I can&#8217;t apply until my FAFSA clears&#8230; in 3 days. Talk about cutting it close!<\/p>\n<p>TDAmeritrade took their time getting me my tax info. Then I mostly did my taxes. Then I was waiting for some tax help from CCSF. But that was a bust. I knew more about taxes then they did. So I just did my taxes on my own.<\/p>\n<p>I thought that maybe I could put money into my IRA and pull it out when I needed it for school <strong>next year<\/strong>; I thought maybe this would be a good way of getting tax free money for school. But it turns out that while I would not be subject to the 10% penalty (because of a school withdrawl), I would still have to pay taxes on the money taken out of my IRA. So it&#8217;d be a lot of paperwork for not much gain.<\/p>\n<p>And now I&#8217;m down to the wire on this grant\/loan cycle.<\/p>\n<p>AND I have big Chemistry and Physics tests tomorrow and an Anatomy test Thursday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You didn&#8217;t think I did my taxes early because I&#8217;m just a good person did you? Do taxes, so I can fill out my FAFSA, so I can apply for loans and grants for school. Yipe, the spring application deadline for CalGrants is in 3 days, Friday. But I can&#8217;t apply until my FAFSA clears&#8230; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4873","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-school"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4873","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4873"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4873\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4873"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4873"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4873"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}