<p>I was attending DeVry online and currently lack 4 classes for my bachelors and another 30 credit hours to sit in for my CPA.</p>
<p>I maxed out my student loans and due to working full time then was not eligible for pell grants.</p>
<p>Now all I make is less than a thousand a month on SSDI and it looks like I will qualify for pell grants. What I wonder is if pell grants can be used towards past due balances as I owe DeVry in order to get back in, $5600, once I can get that taken care of then Voc Rehab is willing to pay the full tuition for the last of my classes.</p>
<p>College was very tough for me previously and I found out why, it turns out I have Adult ADHD and since seeing a therapist and medication, I am now able to concentrate and understand what I need to. The downside is that DeVry is the only school that will accept my credits as they are who I have gone through.</p>
<p>Are you asking…if you go back to school and another party pays for all of its costs, AND you qualify for a Pell Grant, can you use those funds (once you receive them), to pay off a debt elsewhere?</p>
<p>If that’s the question, then techically, yes. Once those funds are given to you, you use them as you need to. no one comes to your home to see what you’ve spent the money on.</p>
<p>You cannot use current year aid to repay prior year balances. So if you are trying to get a balance paid off at DeVry in order to enroll, you will not be able to use financial aid to do that. You will have to pay off the balance some other way.</p>
<p>If this student has a third party paying for next year’s college costs, and he is entitled to get Pell, which means that he’ll have a surplus of aid that will get refunded to him. What’s to stop him from putting that money into his account and writing a check to pay off a debt…no matter what that debt is from?</p>
<p>What I wonder is if pell grants can be used towards past due balances as I owe DeVry in order to get back in,</p>
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<p>I read this to mean OP needs to pay off the balance in order to get into school and needs the Pell to do that. The third party payment will not kick in until OP is enrolled, which won’t happen without paying the prior balance … and the prior balance cannot be paid off with the Pell because the Pell won’t pay out until the student is enrolled.</p>