<p>I got work study.</p>
<p>The school itself provides 1/4 of the payments to you, so the more money the school puts in (which in this case is alot) the FEDS will provide the other 3/4 up to a certain amount.</p>
<p>The reason schools like work study is that the student worker can get paid much less then they would a staff member.</p>
<p>Let me explain, I am an admin student worker and get paid $9.00 an hour. I covered a shift for a staff employee who is also an admin. My work is just as hard if not slightly harder then his- except he gets paid $3,000 a month!</p>
<p>So it is cheaper for the school to higher student workers</p>