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It outlines five strategic recommendations: prioritizing early payment delivery, providing clear instruction letters with contact information, simplifying the process by consolidating payments into a single annual transaction, ensuring appropriate coordination with institutional financial aid offices to prevent aid re-assessment, and guiding schools on applying funds to minimize scholarship displacement and protect students' overall financial aid packages. 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Students need funds as soon as they arrive on campus, to buy books, supplies and pay other related expenses. If you’re used to sending checks later in the semester, consider moving your calendar up (and remember to ask for proof of enrollment before issuing payment.)  \n2) Send payments with instructions. Whether you send the check to the student or their school, include a cover letter with instructions for applying the funds, anda chapter contact to return any funds if the student withdraws from or never attends the institution. See our sample Scholarship Award Letter Template in Affiliate Resources.  \n3) Make it easier on everyone, make one payment. Send one payment for the academic year vs. two (or more) semester payments. Make sure all checks are payable to the institution (even if you send them to students) and include the student’s name on the check; if you send checks directly to schools make sure the address includes “Financial Aid Office.”  \n4) Bypassing the financial aid office won’t help your students. Even if you send checks to students directly, their financial aid office needs to be informed of the award. If a campus learns of an outside scholarship after packaging all aid, the student’s offer will be re-assessed – and in the case of an overaward the campus will likely require the student to pay back financial aid.  \n5) Help your students keep their financial aid. Use the Scholarship Award Letter Template referenced above advising how the scholarship funds should be applied. Asking campuses to apply your scholarship across future academic terms; toward loan or work requirements; or to additional college costs beyond tuition will help keep your students from experiencing scholarship displacement.","cbCaikwwQshqq5wN","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaikwwQshqq5wN","pdf",477842,"English","# Tips for Making Your Award Payments\n## Best Practices for Disbursement\n## Coordinating with Financial Aid Offices","[{\"question\":\"Why is it recommended to send scholarship payments early in the semester?\",\"answer\":\"Sending payments early ensures that students have the necessary funds to purchase books, supplies, and cover other immediate expenses upon their arrival on campus.\"},{\"question\":\"What is the benefit of making one annual payment instead of multiple semester payments?\",\"answer\":\"Making a single payment for the academic year simplifies the administrative process for both the scholarship provider and the institution, reducing the complexity of tracking and applying individual disbursements.\"},{\"question\":\"Why should scholarship providers inform a student's financial aid office about an award?\",\"answer\":\"Informing the financial aid office prevents unexpected re-assessment of the student's aid package, which could otherwise lead to an 'overaward' situation and force the student to return existing financial aid.\"}]","Tips for Making Award Payments | PDF"]