What Offices Help Create Your Direct Deposit or Refund Check?

The Financial Aid & Scholarships Office transmits (disburses) your financial aid awards electronically to the Cashiering & Student Accounts Office several times per week. When this transfer occurs, your financial aid will credit to your UNLV billing statement.

The Financial Aid & Scholarships Office does not create your physical direct deposit or paper refund check. The Cashiering and Student Accounts Office is responsible for this transaction.

Even though the Financial Aid & Scholarships Office disburses financial aid several times per week to the Cashiering & Student Accounts Office, electronic direct deposit refunds or paper refund checks occur once per week. A refund will be processed if the student's account results in a negative balance. Per our credit card merchant agreement, if you paid tuition and fees with a credit or debit card, the card will be refunded first.

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To Have Your Financial Aid Pay or Get a Direct Deposit or Paper Refund Check

Students should:

  • maintain UNLV’s Satisfactory Academic Progress (SAP) policy in order to maintain financial aid eligibility for most types of funding.
  • check their admission status. Non-admitted or non-degree seeking students cannot receive federal, state, and institutional aid and most scholarships.
  • ensure that their residency status (in-state versus out-of-state) is correct. If the student’s financial aid details show a different residency status, the student should  contact our office in person (SSC-A building) or by submitting a case via the Rebel Success Hub at .
  • complete the and complete the (MPN) if you are a first-time Direct Loan borrower.
  • ensure you are meeting all criteria for academic and need-based institutional scholarship. Visit UNLV Office of Financial Aid & Scholarships - Academic and Need-Based Scholarships for additional criteria and information.
  • make sure you have no outstanding "To Do" items listed in .

Refunds

For more information about refunds and signing up for direct deposit, please visit the UNLV Cashiering and Student Accounts Office website.

Check Your Billing Statement

Financial aid begins disbursing as early as ten (10) calendar days before the start of the semester or term. Visit UNLV Office of Financial Aid & Scholarships - Financial Aid Deadlines for more information about when financial aid will disburse.