I don’t think this will affect your kid’s financial aid award.
Your kid can get the work study award and then never apply for a job…but you may reconsider this for second semester!
There is good research out there that students budget their time better when they work up to about 10 hours a week.
We didn’t want our kids to work first term. But they went to college and both found very reasonable jobs time wise.
We checked YES for the work study thing. One of our kids got WS when we had two in college at the same time. The other didn’t.