Work-Study Program Restrictions

Students must have Work-Study listed as part of their financial aid offer.
The job must be registered through the Work-Study web site.
The student must be hired/referred through the Work-Study web site prior to the first day of work.

Wages earned prior to the completion of this process are not considered Work-Study, and thus cannot receive the rate subsidy.

Students must stop working if they:

Have reached their maximum eligibility
Have withdrawn or cancelled their enrollment
Are dismissed from the University
Have graduated--eg. A student graduating in the Fall semester can not work in the following Spring.

Federal regulations restrict Work-Study from being used to:

Displace a regularly-hired or budgeted employee - for instance, we can work with for-profit companies, but the job needs to be created for a student and be directly related to a student's major/career goals. Summer internships are great for that. On the other hand, we couldn't allow an employer to hire the subsidized Work-Study student as part of its counter help, because the employer would be displacing a regularly hired/budgeted employee.
Promote organizations that limit/restrict membership, such as a union.
Campaign for a political candidate or issue
Lobby legislatures
Recruit members for a religious organization or construct/maintain a religious building
Work outside the United States unless with a branch of the campus or the U.S. government (an embassy, for example)