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How To Pick Up 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 dibursed beginning the first official day of each term in the MHCC Business Office, Grants & Contracts Department.

For Summer Term 2008 only:
Picture ID is required to pick up your financial aid check. Checks will be available in the Grants & Contracts Department on:

Beginning the week of July 7th, checks will be available on Tuesdays and Fridays from 8:00 am to 5:00pm

Checks not picked up by 5:00 pm each day will be mailed to the address on file at MHCC. Please be sure your address is correct by logging into My MHCC and selecting Update My Address from the Quick Links menu.

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:

1. Must be enrolled for the correct number of credits your financial aid is based on. Being on a wait list does not count.
2. 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.

Your financial aid is based, in part, on contract credit hours each term. If those 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. If you change your credit hours after aid has posted to your account, no adjustment is possible and further disbursements may be cancelled.

Beginning Fall Term 2008, MHCC will be partnering with Higher One, a financial services company focused solely on higher education to bring a new method for receiving your refunds to MHCC students the MHCC Mountain Card. Please do not throw away this important card since it is your ticket to a faster refund.
Simply put, your new MHCC Mountain Card is designed to provide you with increased choice when it comes to receiving your financial aid or school refunds including the Easy Refund method. Easy Refund is by far the fastest and easiest way to gain access to your refund money literally the same day MHCC releases it.
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.

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.