{"id":250,"date":"2019-10-23T12:01:03","date_gmt":"2019-10-23T01:31:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/student-news\/?p=250"},"modified":"2019-11-07T16:16:56","modified_gmt":"2019-11-07T05:46:56","slug":"struggling-financially-help-is-available","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/student-news\/2019\/10\/23\/struggling-financially-help-is-available\/","title":{"rendered":"Struggling financially? Help is available"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you need some financial help, advice or tips and information on budgeting, working and managing living and study costs, there is a ton of information on the Flinders student website. Visit\u00a0the <a href=\"https:\/\/students.flinders.edu.au\/finances-and-admin\">Financial support and scholarships section<\/a> to learn about:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/students.flinders.edu.au\/finances-and-admin\/help-loans-and-grants\">Financial help loans and grants<\/a>\u00a0has information on emergency financial assistance, interest free loans, grants and free tax return help<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/students.flinders.edu.au\/finances-and-admin\/centrelink\">Centrelink <\/a>page includes information about the different help options available through Centrelink and how to access them<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/students.flinders.edu.au\/finances-and-admin\/tips-resources\">Work and financial tips and resources<\/a>\u00a0page provides tips and information on managing living and study costs, working and budgeting.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/students.flinders.edu.au\/finances-and-admin\/scholarships\">Scholarships<\/a> page enables you to search and browse through the range of scholarships available at Flinders that you may be eligible for during the academic year.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The improvements to this site were in response to your feedback about making help and support easier to find for students. This feedback was provided through the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/staff.flinders.edu.au\/colleges-and-services\/ids\/dsts\/compass\">Compass Program,<\/a> a student centred initiative by\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/staff.flinders.edu.au\/colleges-and-services\/ids\/dsts\">Digital Student and Teaching Services<\/a>\u00a0and Student Experience. Visit the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/staff.flinders.edu.au\/colleges-and-services\/ids\/dsts\/compass\">Compass Program<\/a> website to find out more.<\/p>\n<p>If you would like to get involved in the work Compass project team is doing, please email <a href=\"mailto:student.experience@flinders.edu.au\">student.experience@flinders.edu.au<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you need some financial help, advice or tips and information on budgeting, working and managing living and study costs, there is a ton of information [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1025,"featured_media":252,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[116,648],"tags":[1183,1186,1187,1182,1178,1180,1184,1179,1185,1181],"class_list":["post-250","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-students","category-student-ideas","tag-centreling","tag-compass","tag-dsts","tag-expenses","tag-financial-support","tag-help","tag-loans","tag-money","tag-scholarships","tag-support-services"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/student-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/student-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/student-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/student-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1025"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/student-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=250"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/student-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/student-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/252"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/student-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=250"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/student-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=250"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/student-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}