OSAP and the Strike

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OSAP and the Strike

• OSAP is being kind (!) to York students
• Additional funding for additional weeks in class.
  Check the document tracker
• If you made more money this year, you will not
  get blocked from OSAP next year ( more
  explanations later)
• Your study period automatically extended until
  June 2nd.

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RAFÉO pour lété

• Extension of your fall/winter OSAP
• One page application on York website
• Disponible MAINTENANT
• Enroll in courses first
• Dont have OSAP in fall/winter? Use the osap
  website application

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OSAP for next year

• Demande disponible en mi-mai
• Fill it in by June 15 pay your tuition a month
  late (sans intérêts!)
• You dont have to be enrolled in classes to apply
• Envoyez-nous les pages de signatures!

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No OSAP next year?

• Mais POURQUOI?!!!!?
• OSAP Bursaries
• Bourses de York et des Amis de Glendon
• Ontario Student Opportunity Grant

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No OSAP next year

• You sure? Okay then.
• Interest free status you make no payments, no
  interest accrues
• Continuation of Interest Free Status Form (CIFS)
  Glendon, September
• IF there is a delay in getting your OSAP in the
  fall, fill in one of these forms too!

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Timing is everything
Simple fact osap is for full time students Full
time 9 credits per term ( 6 for students with
disabilities) Example September Bill has
3 year long courses

• Bill drops one 6 credit course November 10th.
• He adds a 3 credit winter course Nov 10th
• No OSAP funding Nov 10 to Jan 3 ( cause part
  time)

• Bill drops one 6 credit course Jan 4th
• He adds a winter course Jan 3rd
• Still full time, gets OSAP for both terms

Ask us, if you are in doubt about dropping a
course
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Honesty is the best policy

• Changements à votre charge de cours
• Financial changes
• Status changes ( independent, divorced,
  married..)
• Fill in Orange Change form from our office or
  download from MyGlendon website

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Overawards / Trop-versés

• OSAP says they gave you too much money
• 1st time, aucun problème
• 2nd time you pay back the overaward before they
  give you more OSAP
• Due usually to income changes, course load
  changes
• Note that for this year only, because of the
  strike, a second over award will not block you
  from getting OSAP next year.
• Our advice if the first over award is small,
  pay it back to keep a clean slate

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Academic probation

• Not the same as Glendons academic probation
• Means not successfully completing at least 18
  credits or multiple programme switches, or being
  in 1st year for 3 years
• Can get OSAP when on probation, but if you are
  not successful a second time, then you pay for
  school in the future, not OSAP

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Les embûches à éviter

• Wrong answer regarding residency
• Revenue pendant la période détudes
• Income what to put in, what NOT to put in.
• Use the green hyperlinks!
• NSLSC doesnt know you are in school full time
• Programme code (Glendons not Yorks!)
• OSOG (do your taxes!)

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More Information

• http//myglendon.yorku.ca/moneymatters
• OSAP Basics
• OSAP life cycle
• Rembourser le RAFÉO
• Venez nous voir!