Work Allotments and Earning Limits
Students who have completed an application for financial aid and have eligibility for federal work-study funds (FWS) may receive a Federal Work-Study (FWS) award as part of their financial aid package. This award is commonly referred to as a "work allotment" or earnings limit. Most students use this award to cover books, supplies and personal expenses. Students are not eligible to work on campus once they have earned their full work allotments.
Students may not earn their work-study allotments during January Break,(except when performing paid community service), Senior Week, Commencement-Reunion Weekend, or summer break. During these time periods, students hired by individual departments are paid from the department's operations budget. New Request for Hire/Work Authorization Forms (RWAF) must be completed so that student workers can be processed on the nonacademic year student payroll. Unused work-study allotments may not be carried over to the next academic year.
Campus employers may track their student employees' work allotments by viewing web Focus reports on the campus community access domain. Web focus reports showing students' academic year earnings, remaining award status and your department's student employment allocation usage can be obtained at http://focus2:8080/ibi_apps/login/mr/mr_login.jsp.