Just a quick question

It’s say spring terms Pell Grant accepted 2907 and for summer is says the same thing but what was disbursed for spring was 2180 and for summer 727

Ok…I’m guessing here…and hoping @kelsmom clarifies.

You were enrolled half of the academic year 2016-2017. So your actual Pell award would have been half of $5900…which is $2950 for that academic year.

You used the full $2950 between your spring term…and your summer term…right?

I’m not sure you are entitled to more. But I’m not really sure…so hoping @kelsmom responds.

What’s your EFC?

It’s really weak my etc

What is your EFC…on the FAFSA. Was it $0?

If both spring and summer were 2016-2017, you would have been entitled to a full (annual) Pell award between the two semesters. However, Pell is based on # of credits in which you were enrolled in a given semester. Please post the number of credits in which you were enrolled for spring, and post the number of credits for summer. In addition, let us know if your summer courses were taken all at once, or if the start dates were staggered. If they were staggered, what were the start dates & the number of credits for each of those start dates? All of this is important in order to be able to give you any advice.

The summer courses started the same day and I had 18 credits

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@Will100 , you are really not trying to help to bring your issue to resolution.

Are you saying the thesping and the summer term started on the same day?

How many of these 18 credits were from the spring ter and how many were from the summer term?

I think you got what you are going to get from Pell. The school figures it out, applies the Pell amount to the bill, and gives you anything left over. Usually that takes a week or two after the term starts. You got less for the summer because the term is not the same number of credits as the spring, or you only had that amount left in your Pell grant max.

It would be pretty amazing if the amount you received for the Pell grant was exactly what your cost for the spring tuition was. If you had any other FA, you might have received the entire Pell grant to help you cover other expenses like commuting or r&b. The Pell grant is often applied last as it can be given to the student where many other grants and scholarships are only for tuition.

Spring term: How many credits?

Summer term: How many credits?

I was awarded a full annual Pell of 5815$
I accepted 2907 for the spring course and 2907 for the summer course
I used only 2180 from the spring course and 727 for the summer
Spring credits= 12
Summer credits= 6

@kelsmom can answer…but in most cases, 6 credits for a term would NOT be a full time course of study for that term.

It doesn’t matter whether 6 credits is considered a full time summer course load by the university, and it also doesn’t matter how much you accepted (Pell grants are paid based on enrollment). Pell grants work on federal credit definitions … 12+ would yield 50% of the annual Pell grant, or $2907; 6 credits would yield 25% of the annual Pell grant, or $1,454.

It looks like you were paid for 9-11 credits enrollment in spring and 1-5 credits enrollment in summer. There could be a couple reasons for being paid less than your actual enrollment: If you added classes after the financial aid census date (typically the date drop-add officially ended), your Pell grant cannot be increased beyond what it was based on enrollment as of the census date. If you received your Pell grant disbursement after classes ended (for example, if you filed your FAFSA late or didn’t complete verification until late), you can only be paid based on the number of credits you actually completed (so no payment for classes from which you withdrew). If you were taking any credits that do not count for financial aid, your Pell enrollment would not include those credits. Contact your financial aid office - tell them you were enrolled in 12 credits but were paid Pell for 9-11 in spring & you were enrolled in 6 credits but were paid Pell for 1-5 credits in summer. Ask them why this is so.

One more question what if you received only 50% of Pell and the year is over but your full time with the necessary credits what happens to the other 50% of unused Pell

The government only pays the school based on your enrollment. Whatever you didn’t use, based on enrollment, is never paid out. Your Pell amount is what you COULD receive, not necessarily what you WILL receive. You’ll be eligible again for the following year based on the new FAFSA and current enrollment.