<p>Is there a list of all schools with work-study programs?</p>
<p>I don't want to say this with certainty...but I believe most schools that receive federal monies also participate in the federal work-study program. That does not guarantee that you will RECEIVE a work-study award, however.</p>
<p>Thumper1 is correct (as usual).</p>
<p>When you fill out your FAFSA, you will be asked if you want work study, loans, or both. If you do not choose work study or both, our school will not award work study. Different schools handle it differently. My suggestion is to mark both. If you have your loan eligibility reduced due to work study award & can't find a job or would prefer the full loan instead, you can ask your school to cancel the work study award and raise your loan amount.</p>
<p>Just as an FYI...my daughter has a $4000 work study award for this year. She is working at one of the highest paying jobs on her campus ($10-$12 per hour depending on what she is specifically doing)...and she works about 10-12 hours a week. There is NO WAY she will earn $4000 in work study salary this academic year. There just aren't enough weeks in the school year to do so.</p>
<p>thumper makes a good point. My daughter has a $3400 WS award and earns $9.24 an hour (weird amount - it is a govt job). At the 12 hours a week she works she will just about earn it. 12 hours seems about the right balance for working and maintaining her grades and having some time for fun. The roughly $200 a fortnight is a nice amount of extra cash in her pocket.</p>
<p>Most of the WS jobs at her school are minimum wage $6-7 so she lucked out getting one that pays >$9. (in fact her friends that have outside jobs mostly earn less than that an hour). If she had got a job with less $ per hour she would have converted part of the WS into a subsidized Stafford loan, like she did last year, as she is not maxed out on Stafford (actually has none this year - just a small Perkins).</p>
<p>I thought the max workstudy per year was $1600.</p>
<p>Well..if the max is $1600 then my daughter's finaid award has been "wrong" for three years. Hers has increased each year...$2000 freshman year, $3000 soph, and $4000 this year.</p>
<p>Thanks a lot for the info you guys:)</p>
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<p>I have never heard of that. I assumed it was $3400 (obviously wrongly) as my daughter was awarded $3400 both years. That is her schools maximum and is offered first before any loans. Perhaps each school sets their maximum?</p>
<p>my son has a work study award just under 4K this year. </p>
<p>He's spending most of the xmas break at school and working alot of ws hours because the place he works, the gym, is open except for a few days over xmas and new years. </p>
<p>Not sure if he will earn all of it, but I've encouraged him to try :-)</p>
<p>Just wondering...DD worked for two weeks prior to the start of the quarter (the first two weeks of September) full time (almost 40 hours each week). Will those hours be work study? Her job will pay her work study money until it runs out...then it's a "regular" campus job. She worked last summer also...but we don't think that will count as work study money...or will it?</p>
<p>I *think *maybe the school sets those rules. When I was wondering about this last year (we thought there might be a possibility of my D working for the same prof for part of the summer as the start of the prof's research was delayed until almost the end of the spring semester) I am sure I read that some schools would allow the WS moneys to be used into the summer session but found it was not the case at her school - any WS left on the last day of the spring semester was lost. </p>
<p>It would be interesting to hear from Nikkil or Kelsmom on this.</p>
<p>Will we be able to tell on her W-2 which hours were WS and which weren't...? I don't think so. I guess she's going to have to go into the finaid office or someplace and ask that question so I can enter the number correctly on her FAFSA in January...or whenever I file it.</p>
<p>this is our first calendar year with work study. My son also worked at the same place last summer and was not paid under work study. Does the W-2 they get show which part of the income is 'regular' and which part is work study.</p>
<p>thumper - my guess to your question is 'maybe'. I guess you'll know soon enough when the W-2 comes in.</p>
<p>I'm dreading doing his taxes this year. He worked at 4 different places. He had only NY state taxes taken out. He is a resident of PA. I have to file 2 state returns. </p>
<p>OTOH, my taxes will take at 1/2 to do. In fact I have everything entered already (I make the same amount every week, easy to forcast YTD number) except for the final interest/dividend amounts (I have ytd in there now but know it will be a bit higher when I get the end of year statement).</p>
<p>you have to be kidding me on the not knowing how much was work study vs regular pay on the W-2. I do have the last paystub from this summer before work study started so I guess I can do the math myself....</p>
<p>(I'm assuming that your answer posted above my question because I edited it)</p>
<p>My daughter also worked out of State this summer. She worked in one State but service organisation she worked for was based in a neighboring State. The State she worked in has State tax but the paychecks were paid from the neighboring State which does not have a State income tax, and no State tax was deducted. I am not sure yet how all the State tax returns will work our :(. Not looking forward to figuring that out!</p>
<p>One way you may be able to deduce what was WS and what was not on the W2 is that WS does not have SS deducted so the line that shows SS wages would be the non WS and the difference between total earnings and ss wages would be WS.</p>
<p>Our son worked in three states one year. It really isn't all that hard. First you have to find out if your daughter needs to file in all three states. Some states do NOT require filings below a certain income. In DS's case, that was the situation for one of the three states...so he just didn't file there (state tax deducted was less than $5). The other two states were our home state and one other state. He was able to "freefile" his taxes, and luckily the "other" state had signed up for freefile for state taxes as well. He did his fed income taxes (freefile) and then did the second state as a non-resident, also using freefile. It was VERY easy. Then he had to complete a resident income tax form for THIS state...paper copy...we weren't going to pay for him to do this when his refund was under $50. </p>
<p>I will say, the less states, the easier. We also have to file in two states for DH who worked in a neighboring state. That's a headache too. Last year, he ONLY worked in that neighboring state...not hard. BUT this year, he worked in TWO states. </p>
<p>We use one of the computerized tax preparation software programs...and that makes the whole process much easier.</p>
<p>Ok, now I'm freaking out because they are definitely taxing out FICA taxes.</p>
<p>I hope this money he has earned the past few months is really work study money.</p>
<p>I use taxactonline. and he did make enough money to have to file in both states. PA doesn't care if you made $100, you still are supposed to file</p>
<p>My understanding is that they are taxable for federal and State but not for medicare and social security as long as the student is enrolled at least 1/2 time. and not working full time.</p>