Calculate the amount of your semester Federal Pell Grant award amounts by using this award schedule and information from your paper or electronic Student Aid Report (SAR). If you don't have your SAR, you may access your SAR information online and download a copy at: www.fafsa.ed.gov/FOTWWebApp/studentaccess.jsp. You will need your Federal PIN to view and download your SAR.

USING THE CHART
To use this chart, you need to know your Expected Family Contribution (EFC) and your enrollment status. If you need information on how to calculate your correct enrollment status, click on the the enrollment status link. Your EFC can be found on your SAR.

1. Locate your EFC on your paper or electronic SAR.

2. On the Pell Grant Award Schedule, look at the left-hand column labeled "EFC" and find the range of numbers containing your particular EFC.

3. Look at the columns to the right labeled with the 4 different enrollment statuses. The appropriate PELL Grant award amounts for every EFC are printed for each enrollment status. FInd the column for your enrollment status and move across the same row as your EFC until you find the award amount for your particular enrollment status.

DISBURSEMENT INFORMATION
If you have chosen the CUNY Scholar Support Prepaid Card as your preferred payment method, your Pell Grant funds will be added to the card on the dates listed below.

If you have chosen direct deposit as your preferred payment method, your Pell Grant funds will be available in your direct deposit account on the dates listed below.

If you did not select either of the above payment methods, your Fall and Spring semester checks will be mailed to you on the dates listed below unless you have made special arrangements with the Bursar.

Note: If you miss the regularly scheduled disbursement date because your FAFSA was not processed in time, you may still receive a late disbursement of Pell if processing of your application is completed before your last day of attendance. Find more information on our PELL Q & A page.

ATTENDANCE
Federal student aid is awarded with the expectation that you will attend school for the entire period for which your financial aid was intended.  To qualify for any financial aid payments, you must actually begin attendance in your classes.  Before disbursing your federal aid payments, we will verify your enrollment and attendance status with the Registrar.  If you receive a financial aid payment for a class or classes you have never attended, you must return that payment immediately to the college.  If you fail to receive payment for a course you are attending, you may request an award recalculation at the end of the semester.

WITHDRAWALS AND OVERPAYMENTS
If you withdraw from all your classes before you have completed at least 60% of the semester, the college must determine what portion of your federal awards you are entitled to receive according to an attendance formula prescribed in federal regulations.  If you have received, or the college has received on your behalf, more federal student aid funds than the formula allows, you will have to repay any award amount to which you were not entitled.  The dates listed below mark the point in each term when you have earned 100% of your semester awards:

POST-WITHDRAWAL DISBURSEMENTS
If you withdraw from your classes before the scheduled disbursement of your Federal Pell Grant, you may be eligible to receive a pro-rated award payment based on the number of days you attended classes up to the date you withdrew. Once you are determined eligible for a pro-rated Pell Grant disbursement, you will be issued that disbursement.

PAYMENTS FOR REMEDIAL COURSEWORK
You may receive federal award payments for no more than 30 hours of non-credit remedial course work. This restriction does not apply to English as a Second Language courses.

SATISFACTORY PROGRESS
In accordance with Federal guidelines and University policy, you must be making satisfactory progress in your program of study in order to remain eligible for federal award programs. You will be measured for satisfactory progress once each year after the spring term and notified by mail if you are found not to be meeting the satisfactory progress standard. Copies of these satisfactory progress guidelines are available from the financial aid pages of the college's web site at: www.bmcc.cuny.edu/finaid/progress/federal.html.

SUMMER PELL GRANT ELIGIBILITY
You may receive up to 2 full-time semesters of Pell Grant in any award year. The federal government has eliminated funding for additional Pell payments within the award year that could be used for summer study. However, you may be able to receive a Pell Grant disbursement for summer session attendance if you haven't used all of your scheduled Pell Grant eligibility in the fall or spring semesters. The amount of your summer Pell Grant will be calculated from your summer session enrollment, your EFC, and the college’s records of your remaining Pell eligibility. Calculated summer Pell Grant estimates can be applied against tuition charges to your summer session bill. Learn more about utilizing Pell Grant in the summer sessions here.

PELL GRANT PURCHASE ADVANCE
Since Federal Pell Grant awards are paid around the 6th week of the Fall & Spring semesters, the Office of Financial Aid schedules an advance payment of Pell for eligible students at the beginning of the Fall and Spring semesters.  These advance payments are intended to give you a portion of your award early to help you purchase books and supplies.  In order to provide an advance payment to as many students as possible within the first 2 weeks of classes, the Office of Financial Aid schedules several dates at the beginning of each term for the distribution of the advance.  The amount of your Pell Advance can be up to $600 but depends on the amount of available Pell Grant remaining after your tuition and fees are paid.  For more information about the Pell Advance, click here.