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2025-26 Financial Aid Award Payout Request
This form is created by the Law Financial Aid Office and is the appropriate channel to pay the following awards to a student:

  1. Prize or reward, such as writing prizes and trial competition awards
  2. Award for a limited contribution to a one-time activity that benefits student's education, (especially if it relates to a class or course material) so long as the student is not being compensated for work that would otherwise be fulfilled by a hired individual.
Reminders:
  • A student must be registered during the previous academic year (fall-spring-summer) and/or registered or eligible to register for the current or next academic year (fall-spring-summer)
  • If term 'reward' is used, cannot be for work performed if job would otherwise be fulfilled by a hired individual. 'Compensation' implies work, and this implies an employee-university relationship and there are benefits & tax withholding implications. Please contact Berkeley Law HR if you have questions about this.
  • Financial aid (FA) awards may, in some cases, interfere with other aid sources (i.e. accepted loans) if the student is already at their FA limit, thus student may not always receive additional cash-in-hand as a result of your award. For this reason, students should not be promised awards as if they are compensation. However, usually awards for educational travel/research related expenses do not impact other financial aid awards, as the FA limit can be increased to accommodate these educational expenses.
  • If you have any questions about the above information, including what 'impact' the award will have on a student, please contact the Law Financial Aid Office at financial-aid-law@berkeley.edu. 
Email *
Are you a student, requesting that an award be distributed to a student on behalf of a Berkeley Law student group or student organization? *
Required
Student Recipient(s) Information
You can enter multiple students, so long as the chartstring (fund, dept ID, chartfields) AND the Academic Career (Undergraduate, LAW, etc.) is the same for each student. Otherwise, please submit a new request for each award type.


Student Name(s) and ID number(s) and Award amount *
example: Oskie Bear, 3031234567 - $900.
Academic Career *
Award Information (Name of the Award and Type of the Award such as Scholarship, Stipend, Fellowship, etc.) *
How would you want this award to payout? *
Purpose of Award (why is the student receiving this award?) *
Awarding Unit/Department *
What semester do you intend that the student(s) receive this award? *
Example: Fall 25, Spring 26, or Summer 26 (any summer awards could potentially impact the following academic year's financial aid)
Have you ever granted this award in the last three years? *
Chartstring Information
The only chartstring items we need from you is the Fund, Dept ID, and Chartfields (if any). We will select the appropriate account code based on the purpose of the award as indicated above. The program code will always be 78 for any student financial aid awards.
Fund # *
DeptID # *
Chartfield 1 (optional)
Chartfield 2 (optional)
If this is the first time you are granting this award, have you already verified that this fund is authorized to be used for this purpose? (Financial Aid does not determine budgets and cannot verify whether the fund you are paying from has enough available funds. Questions should be directed to the appropriate individual in the Law Finance department.) *
If we have questions about the Chartstring or purpose of the awards, who should we contact? *
Please include name, title, and email address
Authorization
By entering your name below, you are indicating that:
  1. You are authorized (or have been delegated authorization) to spend funds from above accounts and for such purpose as listed above;
  2. You can certify that this award was not advertised to be for individuals of a particular race, sex, color, ethnicity or national origin, and recipients for this award were not selected based on race, sex, color, ethnicity or national origin (ref: CA Prop 209);
  3. The award recipient is eligible for university funding based on residency and documentation status (University of California’s ability to provide financial support to undocumented students is shaped by a student’s residency and documentation status); and
  4. Your awards are not being provided as compensation for work that would otherwise be fulfilled by a hired individual.

Your Name, Title, and Email Address *
Is there anything else you would like us to know?
Special instructions, questions, concerns
Disbursement Timeframe and Process
Once this form is received, we will enter the award request into the Financial Aid module within the campus' Student Information System (SIS). A member of the Law School Financial Aid team will be asked to approve the award request within the SIS, and at that point the award will appear on the student's Financial Aid awards as "Department Award" within the CalCentral student portal. Awards disburse to the student within 1-2 days in most cases. 

Please allow 1-2 weeks for these processes to occur. We will notify you when the award is disbursed.

PLEASE HELP US TO ENCOURAGE STUDENTS TO ENROLL IN DIRECT DEPOSIT THROUGH CALCENTRAL TO AVOID DELAYS IN STUDENT FINANCIAL AID REFUNDS: https://eftstudent.berkeley.edu/
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