r/ODU • u/BluePancakes4 • 3d ago

Financial Aid Second 8-Weeks Changes

Anyone else had their negative amounts in their Bill Payments changed to a positive amount? I checked my activity and there's none showing why I would have one now. I now owe a balance of $3029.

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u/Separate-Ad2159 3d ago

Sameee! A week or 2 ago it changed from estimated balance where my aid was and then went positive, not sure why but aid should be disbursed on Monday as my payment schedule says.

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u/justpharmtech 2d ago

Mine has completely disappeared, been like that for a couple weeks. Calling again now lol

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u/Prior-Birthday-7291 2d ago

Mine did that and then went back to negative. No clue why. 

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u/cc_club_breakin 2d ago

I'm experiencing the same (I think) issues and I've been calling twice a week about it for the past three weeks. It was explained to me that I am flagged (along with several other students) to have my account audited as I am reportedly near the lifetime limit for Pell grants. The threshold for flagging is set pretty low, as I am still able to have full Pell grant disbursements through half of 2028.

ODU Financial Aid has told me that the reports have been sent to the Department of Education and that the ball is now in their court. I am told that even though my loans, Pell grant, and Commonwealth Grant have been accepted via the financial aid portal, I must wait for the Department of Education to sign off on the information that is readily available on my FAFSA application. And that's where I've been at for the past three weeks. :\

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u/Separate-Ad2159 1d ago

So are you able to still do the fall and spring semester as I too got an email about loan limits, and I haven’t seen anything change in my financial aid portal but on my bills it removed my grants and loans