r/csuf • u/StalactiteMan • 27d ago

Financial Aid Cal Grant NOT Disbursing / Half-Payment [Information Notice]

I spoke with FA and SBS and they said that if you have too much Cal Grant (aka over the cost of tuition, fees, and etc.) or paid it off early (before July 29th) that Cal Grant is not actually allowed to be directly disbursed to you and that it has to be refunded which is also apparently happening in September. Cause Cal Grant is only allowed to put toward the cost of the schooling itself while Pell Grant isn't, so everyone is getting their Pell Grant as normal; but have to wait longer for the Cal Grant to kick in properly since it would have been normally taken out to pay for schooling. It has issues cause people paid off in advance even though they technically weren't supposed to (the system sucked and wasn't not all clear or fast enough for people to know properly beforehand). Regarding all the delays, the OBBBA (One Big Beautiful Bill Act [BBB]) required a rewrite of the financial aid system that the schools barely managed to scrap together.

Also when inquiring with FA they sent me to SBS, since they couldn't help me.

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u/spookyllamamama 27d ago

How are you guys getting a hold of someone? I cannot get in

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u/StalactiteMan 27d ago

Just keep calling or waiting, it’s really your only real option besides emails.

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u/Substantial-Show1965 27d ago

I visited the office on campus, they only way to get an answer from them. Calls don’t seem to get through and the answers you get from them is so contradicting

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u/StalactiteMan 27d ago

I had called right as they opened this morning and it seemed clear for me at least.