Military families have a lot of issues that they deal with, and now there is one more to add to the list. The government recently set aside a budget to allow a grant for up to $6,000 for the spouses of military personnel to attend classes to further their career. The response was overwhelming, and now the government has put a hold on the grants, and is not allowing any more to be approved. The problem was that they had almost reached the threshold of their budget, and did not want to go over. Family members were upset when they found that the money they had been promised had been put on hold and would not be able to be accessed, some right before classes were about to start.
Military families have problems keeping jobs because of their spouses need to move every 3 years or so. That will make employers less likely to hire someone who doesn’t have amazing qualifications. The grants were a good idea, but to just yank them because the government wasn’t sure that it would be able to pay is not right, and has angered a lot of the people who had planned to take advantage of this opportunity.
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