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Excess Check Disbursement

Student account excess checks for Fall 2008 will be mailed and/or direct deposited no later than September 5, 2008.

Excess is the term we use to refer to remaining money left over on a student account after all charges to the account have been paid.

After all funds are posted to student accounts and student attendance is verified by faculty, any remaining Excess is remitted to the student by one of the following methods:

  • Direct Deposit. For more information, please visit the following page: Direct Deposit of Excess Checks.
  • FLEX account transfer by the student
  • Check mailed via USPS. The mailing date for each semester is published in the Registration Guide located on the Banner Registration website. Excess checks are mailed to a local address if one is available. If your excess check has been mailed but you have not received it, it may be necessary to complete a stop payment request. Ten days must pass from the day the excess/refund check was mailed before a stop payment request can be made. Come to the Bursary with your student ID and fill out a stop payment form OR if you are out of town, mail/fax a request. Please send your name, address, phone number, Student Identification number in the request and sign it. If the stop payment has to be done due to (1) incorrect address at the Registrar’s Office (2) you received the check and lost it or (3) VSU re-mailed it and it was lost in the mail, etc, a stop payment fee of $10 will apply.

Department of Education regulations require that a student must attend at least 1 day of class to be eligible for federal financial aid (including loans). Therefore, the University must review proof roll attendance for students receiving federal financial aid prior to distributing excess funds.

After the first disbursement date each semester, excess funds are distributed once per week. After the first initial excess disbursement for each semester, weekly disbursements are processed thereafter, pending no system downtime or conflicts such as holidays.  Excess disbursements are processed for the prior week’s Financial Aid transactions posted on the student’s account.  Therefore any loans posted Monday thru Friday to a student’s account will be processed for excess disbursement the following week.

Parent Plus loans will be disbursed directly to the student, unless the Office of Financial Aid receives a written request from the student's Parent requesting disbursement to directly to the Parent.  Please contact the Financial Aid Office at 1-800-618-1878 option #2, if you have any questions regarding your Parent Plus Loan.

If you have any questions, please email Neal Culbreth at roculbre@valdosta.edu or call the University Bursary at (229) 333-5718, 333-5719, 333-5725 or 1-800-618-1878 (option 6).