Federal Work Study as part of FA package at Colgate University

brantly
Sat, 28 Sep 2019 04:44:10 +0000

Earnings from work-study go toward her personal expenses throughout the semester. As @twoinanddone said, those w/s earnings are paid via the job’s payroll, usually every other week. Those funds are not available to pay your bill for tuition, room, and board bill at the beginning of the semester. And the funds typically are not even available to pay for books, which are purchased usually the first week of the semester.

The main benefit of w/s versus a job that is not paid with federal w/s funds is that w/s income is disregarded in the calculation of of subsequent years’ financial aid awards.