<p>I got some offers for jobs on campus, and I have $1,000 per semester of maximum potential money I can earn via Federal Work Study.</p>
<p>My financial aid office told me that I can't work even though I got job offers because my school is supposedly out of work study funding....</p>
<p>Is this true? I called the federal student aid information office and I was told that my school would have to find another way to pay me, such as a scholarship for the amount I work for, if I was given a job offer... </p>
<p>I have a job offer right now as an IT assistant but I can't work... Is my school correct or am I being misled by both sides?</p>
<p>Ask this in the Financial Aid forum. </p>
<p>Was this in your aid package? If so, it seems like it should definitely be available to you.</p>
<p>How do you mean you “can’t work”? Is your school not allowing you to? If they say they’re out of work-study, they probably are. I don’t see a reason for them to lie.</p>
<p>Can they run out? Yes they can. This award is not similar to the various pell grants of subsidized loans (where if you qualify you are guaranteed that x amount of money). A school is given a limited amount of funding to fund work study positions and when they are out of money there are no more awards (regardless of your need). </p>
<p>My old undergraduate university was super strict on awarding work study for this reason. If you did not obtain a job at the university within a month your award was forfeited. If you were awarded work study and sat on the money you might be totally out of luck.</p>
<p>“My financial aid office told me that I can’t work even though I got job offers”
Do you mean they rescinded the job offers? If so, see below. If not, contact your future boss and tell him what the financial aid office said.</p>
<p>“I called the federal student aid information office and I was told that my school would have to find another way to pay me, such as a scholarship for the amount I work for, if I was given a job offer…”
Get this in writing, perhaps from their web site, and present it to your school’s financial aid office.</p>
<p>I don’t think the issue is that the school ran out of federal money for jobs. Rather, the federal money only covers something like 2/3 your salary. Particularly if your school is a state school, it just might not have that extra 1/3 to pay you.</p>