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How To Receive Your Financial Aid

The financial aid you are scheduled to receive will be credited to your student account each term. You will be notified by email or US Postal mail when your aid posts to your student account. If the total amount of grants and loans exceeds your amount owed, a refund will be generated and may be disbursed beginning the first official day of each term.

Your financial aid refund will be disbursed to you by the preference you select when you activate your MHCC Mountain Card (www.mhccmountaincard.com). Your new MHCC Mountain Card will be mailed to your current address on file with MHCC. Please activate your card as soon as you receive it. Remember, even if you are not currently expecting a refund from MHCC, we may have a refund for you in the future

To receive your Federal Stafford Loan funds, you must be meeting all compliance requirements at least a week before your Stafford loan money arrives. Some examples of this are:

Must be enrolled for the correct number of credits your financial aid is based on. Being on a wait list does not count.
Must declare an aid-eligible major with the Admissions, Records & Registration Office.

Your Stafford loan money will not be sent from the lender until you are meeting all the requirements. It is your responsibility to make sure you are meeting all compliance requirements. If you are not sure, you can check in the Financial Aid Office.

Please remember, if your credit hours change before aid has posted to your account, we can make changes that reflect the new credit hours if you notify the Financial Aid Office. Once the term has begun and your financial aid has posted to your account, we will not be able to change your contract credit hours for that term.

If you need to drop or withdraw from all your classes at MHCC, please notify the Grants & Contracts Department, in person or by calling 503-491-7139. One of your instructors will need to write a letter or send us an email verifying that you attended class for that term, otherwise you may be responsible for repaying all of your financial aid received for the term.

MHCC reserves the right to change your financial aid award without prior notice in the unforeseen event that less student financial aid money is available than was expected, student use of available financial aid was greater than expected, or an error occurs in your aid calculation or award.

Receiving Federal Work Study Payments

Time sheets are submitted to the Mt. Hood Community College Payroll Office once each month by the supervisor of work study employees. Work-Study employees (students) must fill out the hours they worked during the previous month, sign and date the time sheet, and give it to their supervisor. Checks are available in the Human Resources Office, Room 2270, on the fifteenth day of the following month. Checks not picked up in Human Resources by 3:00pm on that day are mailed to the address students list on their employment paperwork.