Common Questions with Work-Study
Reporting Your Hours:
- If you can not bring in your timesheet on the due date or think the timesheet will not be received in the mail on time, you can call/email your hours; however, we will still need to receive the original timesheet in order to release your paycheck.
- Do not report hours prior to the end of a pay period, if you will still be working during that pay period. This includes calling in during the last day of a pay period, before your work day has ended.
- Students cannot work more than eight hours in a day and no more than 20 hrs/week (no more than 10 hrs/week for 1Ls) during the academic year; no more than 40 hrs/ week during the summer (this includes those working more than one work study job). If you work six or more hours in a day, you must take a half hour unpaid break, which must be noted on your timesheet. If we do not see a half hour break indicated, we will reduce your hours.
- Please report your hours in increments, down to the quarter hour.
- If you call in and are working multiple jobs, please specify which job you are calling in hours for.
- Do not combine pay periods or jobs on the same timesheet; we will need a separate timesheet for each of your jobs (signed by your employer) and for each pay period. Please follow the schedule pay period dates. The complete work-study schedule is available online.
- Students are not paid for holidays, unless you worked on those days.
- We will not accept timesheets that are not signed by your employer. It is your responsibility to submit completed timesheets; if you cannot have your timesheet signed in time to be reported, you may call your hours in to ensure that a paycheck will be generated for you.
Receiving your paycheck:
- If you would like your paycheck mailed to you, indicate so on the top of your timesheet, along with the correct address.
- We will not send or give out paychecks until we have received the signed timesheet for the corresponding pay period.
- Paychecks will not be released until noon on the pay date.
- If you cannot pick up your paycheck, you can call or email us to let us know you'd like it mailed or you can send us an email authorizing another person to pick up your paycheck.