ARE OBAMA GRANTS REALLY FREE?

Obama grant money will mostly be going to institutions and other organizations. Many people might think that he is going to give out extra free grant money but that is probably not the case.  

If you do qualify for an Obama grant, will it be free? Free is perhaps not the right word because you will have to do lots of work to get it and you will have to use it in a specific way. Educational institutions, charities, and other organizations are usually the ones to get most of the grant money. Although they don’t have to pay it back, they do have to show they are using it in the fashion they said they would. But because they don’t have to pay it back in the end, one might say it is free. Grants are different than Obama student loans that do have to be repaid.

Obama’s grants will probably be no different. You might think that just because he was elected you will be getting free money. I don’t see how that can happen because the government doesn’t have any money to give.

8 Comments

  1. Mohammed Hussain says:

    I have own my business but I lost & also my house right now Forcloser but I trying to establish again but I don’t have money. Right now I don’t have job my son going to college & my daughter going to high school. College expense & house expanse mentain very hard for me. So how way Goverment help me.

  2. Lflint says:

    how can this help me? I’m disabiled, live on <900 a month have used my life savings and will not make it without help. my house payment is 647 a month to say nothing of utilities, Rx, medical bills, food and transportation.

  3. YVONNE MCGRIFF says:

    I AM UNEMPLOYED 55 YEARS OLD FEMALE WITH A DISABLITY LOSS JOB WAS DECENTRALIZED IN NOV 2008 I HAVE QUESTION ABOUT FREE HEALTH INSURANCE WITH PREEXISTING CONDITIONS. IS THERE A PROGRAM NOW I’M PAYING $260.00 PER MONTH OUT OF MY UNEMPLOYMENT COMPENSATION WHICH TAKE 1/4 OF MY UNEMPLOYED INCOME.

  4. llw says:

    Where is the money coming from? It has to come from somewhere.

  5. J HARRIS says:

    Before I purchase this home I really didn’t know what I was getting in to. I thought that I had a great house until I moved in, and saw all the things that was wrong with the house. I am low-income and I am a single parent of four children,two of my childen are disable and this grant would really help me a lot. I don’t have extra money to pay for the worked that is really need for my home to be at least up to code with the state. The only money that I receive is barely enough for my bills and take care of my children. I have been trying to find help for as long as I moved in this house and still no luck

  6. Stella Smith-Salmon says:

    I am applying for a grant to further my knowledge. I want to have a better career. I want a full-time job to where I can be in the nation, I want to provide for my family. I want to set a great example, be a great role model for my 13 year old son.
    I need this for all these reasons, to please me at heart.

    Thanks,
    Stella L. Smith-Salmon

  7. patricia a price says:

    I am takeing criminal justice at ITT Technical Institute i have a slow learning disabilty i was in spical class, ( teacher said never beable to go to collage). I am 53 years old . my firest sammter I got A’s in my classis i would like help paying for my schooling
    thank you
    Patricia a price

  8. lydia v oliver says:

    obama this is lydia oliver i am in cleveland ohio i am hearing that u r giving this money out to people that called this toll free number so there were over a thousand people that called that number for your free money they are suppose to send some papers in the mail okay