Updated Step Up Purchasing Guide for PEP!

That was actually in the previous versions of the purchasing guide as well.

I apologize, I am getting the two scholarships confused. The previous version of the FES-UA purchasing guide did not have any limits and the line : “Frequency of Purchase: One year for supplies; two years for equipment” was just added in the UA guide, there were no limits previously. So I as, also a UA families am worried about this and I hadn’t noticed it being in the PEP previously. I haven’t filed my gardening receipts from this year so we will see if they limit it. In the past it was not, but this year they are improperly denying things. SUFS outsourced the customer support staff and this year getting things properly and timely processed is much worse than last years.

May I ask why you aren’t also posting the FES-UA purchasing guide update on the UA forum area and may I suggest considering featuring FES-UA on the main forum list, not hidden under Scholarships? Maybe make a FAQ for FES-UA. You might get more FES-UA parent traffic and questions that way. I would think that would be great as many FES-UA families homeschool. It would be wonderful if you are informed on both scholarships so you can advocate on behalf of parents with special needs children and other diagnosis on the Unique Abilities Scholarhsip, along with those on PEP and many families have kids on both scholarships.

We plan to eventually put the PEP FAQ back under scholarships in the menu as well; it was only set out more visibly originally because of the flood of questions we were receiving about it due to PEP being so new.

The FAQ section for PEP here in the forum was built from actual questions we received from parents about PEP! But I would love to expand the UA section of our forum. Brenda has been involved with Gardiner and UA from the beginning, and has a lot of knowledge about it! We just haven't had very many questions from UA parents since launching the forum last year, so that section of our forum hasn't yet been expanded as much. If you have questions you'd like answered, please submit them. We'd be happy to build out that section of the forum!

As for not yet posting the updated FES-UA purchasing guide in the forum, I'll try to get to that as soon as I can. Things have been super busy with legislative season just wrapping up, so I haven't been as active in the forum these past couple of months as I usually am. I posted the purchasing guide here because so many people online were asking questions about it, but I can post the UA one as well.