{"id":224,"date":"2022-01-14T14:50:55","date_gmt":"2022-01-14T19:50:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/financial-aid\/?page_id=224"},"modified":"2026-04-23T10:11:56","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T14:11:56","slug":"disbursements-and-refunds","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/financial-aid\/award-notification\/disbursements-and-refunds\/","title":{"rendered":"Disbursements and Refunds"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Disbursements and Refunds<\/strong><\/h1>\n\n\n<div class=\"cl-wrapper cl-boxout-wrapper\"><div class=\"cl-boxout right  \"><h1>Note<\/h1>\n\n<p>The institution has the right to release financial aid funding up to 10 days prior to the beginning of each semester.&nbsp; In the case of a weekend or holiday, disbursements will be processed on the next business day.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Disbursement Timeframes &#8211; Fall 2026 and Spring 2027<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Earliest disbursement for Fall 2026 &#8211; August 31<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Earliest disbursement for Spring 2027 &#8211; January 18<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Loans normally begin disbursing during the above timeframe<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Need-based aid <\/strong>(e.g. Federal Pell Grant, SEOG, Hardge\/Forleo, University grant, RI Promise, etc.) and <strong>Merit aid<\/strong> (e.g. Presidential scholarship, University scholarship, Transfer scholarship, etc.) are held until the add\/drop period is over<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Refunds are processed shortly after the funds are disbursed, following the disbursement date above.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Disbursement of all financial aid awards, excluding Federal Work-Study, will be applied as a credit to your term bill, as noted on the Award Notification.&nbsp; If your total semester financial aid, including any cash payments you make, exceeds the term bill, as refund will be processed for you.&nbsp; <\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-9d6595d7 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:50%\"><a class=\"cl-button   prominent\" href=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/financial-aid\/housing-enrollment-assumptions-and-census\/\" title=\"\">Assumptions About Your Housing and Enrollment for Financial Aid Eligibility<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<a class=\"cl-button   prominent\" href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/forms\/d\/e\/1FAIpQLSepm2ce1jWDRE6jEzA53hiquNVtOTkvOysqFh9f8YamxK9r2g\/viewform\" title=\"\">EArly Disbursement Request form<\/a>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Disbursements and Refunds Disbursement Timeframes &#8211; Fall 2026 and Spring 2027 Disbursement of all financial aid awards, excluding Federal Work-Study, will be applied as a credit to your term bill, as noted on the Award Notification.&nbsp; If your total semester financial aid, including any cash payments you make, exceeds the term bill, as refund will [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":581,"featured_media":0,"parent":210,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"class_list":["post-224","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/financial-aid\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/224","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/financial-aid\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/financial-aid\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/financial-aid\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/581"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/financial-aid\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=224"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/financial-aid\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/224\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2608,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/financial-aid\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/224\/revisions\/2608"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/financial-aid\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/210"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/financial-aid\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}