Disbursement of Financial Aid

If you have returned your signed award letter to FAS or accepted your awards online via your MyUH Portal account, and completed and processed all required documents (please check your MyUH portal), these are the financial aid disbursement procedures.    Please ensure that your refund/mailing address is updated through MyUH Portal or at the Admissions & Records office.  These procedures are subject to change.

Awarded:

Federal Pell Grant

Federal Supplemental Educational Opportunity Grant (SEOG)

HI B Plus Scholarship

HI Second Century Scholarship  

ACG Grant

SMART Grant

TEACH Grant

Manoa Opportunity Grant  

Hawai'i Student Incentive Grant (HSIG)

Federal Perkins Loan

State Higher Education Loan (SHEL)

Subsidized Stafford Loan

Unsubsidized Stafford Loan

Graduate Plus Loan

Parent Plus Loan  

The Cashier’s Office will apply your financial aid towards your UHM Tuition, Fees and Student Housing charges 10 days prior to the start of the semester, and all refunds will be mailed to you or directly deposited into your bank account if you signed up for e-refund on your MyUH Portal account.   

*   If you made a payment by cash or check, any residual financial aid monies will be mailed to you or deposited into your bank account in about two weeks from the disbursement of your financial aid.  Please update your refund/mailing address through MyUH Portal (https://myuhportal.hawaii.edu) or at Admission and Records QLCSS 001.  Failure to update your refund/mailing address may delay the delivery of your refund check. 

*   For recipients of the Perkins, SHEL, Staffords, and Grad Plus loans, an entrance interview must be completed and a promissory note signed before your loan is processed.  The Perkins and SHEL entrance interview packets are mailed to you.  Please update your mailing address through MyUH Portal.  The Staffords and Grad Plus entrance interviews are online at:  www.opennet.salliemae.com.  

If you will be receiving a scholarship check from an outside donor (e.g., Hawai`i Community Foundation/Harriet Bouslog/Unity House) and the scholarship is made payable to the University of Hawai`i at Mānoa only, your scholarship will be applied towards your UHM Tuition, Fees and Student Housing charges and all residual amounts will be mailed to your refund/mailing address within two weeks.  Failure to update your refund/mailing address may delay the delivery of your refund check.  

If your scholarship check is a co-payable check made out to you and the University of Hawai`i at Mānoa, you may either endorse the scholarship at the Cashier’s Office and apply it towards your UHM Tuition, Fees and Student Housing charges, or if your tuition and fees have already been paid, the Cashier’s Office will release the scholarship check to you.