Hopefully, a school that includes work study wages as a benefit on a financial aid offer has a reasonable expectation that suitable employment will be available for all students who are offered work study. The school should have a pretty good idea how much federal money can be budgeted for work study, and then make that money available for actual jobs. Sometimes they may just be “make work” jobs that involve more opportunity to study while sitting at a check-in desk than, say, working alongside a physics professor on a research project. The main point is to get the funds to those students who are in financial need, while also creating an opportunity for the student to practice time management skills and further develop a work ethic that the school might be able to also benefit from.
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