<p>For the University I will be enrolling this Fall 2010, I have been given a package where my Federal Work Study Eligibility for 1 semester says: $1,250. Am i only limited to make that much or can i continue working with federal work study?</p>
<p>Each school that participates in the federal work study program gets a pool of dollars, and they each decide how to allocate that money across eligible students. Unless your allocation is increased by your school, at the point during the semester when you’ve earned $1250 at a work-study job, you will no longer be able to work more and earn more unless the department or hiring entity has other (non-work study) funds available.</p>
<p>You can ask the FA office both now and a month or six weeks into the semester if your allocation can be increased. Sometimes students turn down work study, which frees up those funds.</p>
<p>my daughter has been earning more than what the WS says in the FinAid award, almost every year. The school will increase if you request it, but it looks like some do it automatically without the student asking. We have never been approached by the school alerting us that she is over the WS allowance. She just works every semester, earns her money and no one seems to be tracking or limiting her. Each school is different, of course. But the award in your package is not fixed.
She also worked during Summer in an internship and is applying for work this Summer, not sure how they count that income, but no one is saying no.</p>
<p>^^ that is fairly unusual. Generally the amount you can earn as federal WS income is limited to the amount of the WS award. A large part of federal WS income is funded by the federal government, is need based, and has very limited funding. Some employees will allow a student to continue working as a regular non WS employee once they have earned their maximum WS. It depends on whether their budgets allow them to pay the full wage without the government subsidy (which I believe is between 66-75% of the hourly wage).</p>
<p>TY for that information, swimcats, I just noticed that WS issue recently when looking at the account history for tax completion. They listed the WS award amount, and under the same field, the amount earned, which was over the award but listed under WS earned. It could be how they data enter things, since the account has been showing a payment for the fall semester that was actually paid for the Summer, and shows no payment for the Summer at all. It must be their way of record keeping, which is odd at times. It could very well be regular employment and they just list it as WS in the account. Or it could be college based WS? It does say federal WS in the award, but it could be a combo of that and college WS.</p>