Using Your Financial Aid Funds at the Bookstore: Book Vouchers and Title IV Authorization

If you are awarded, and accept financial aid that is in an amount greater than your tuition charges, then you may be eligible for a voucher to charge your textbooks and course related supplies at the university bookstore to your excess financial aid prior to your financial aid disbursement each semester.  You may use a bookstore voucher to purchase and rent textbooks as well as school supplies such as pens, pencils, calculators, notebooks, and bags. Your bookstore voucher is NOT authorized to purchase apparel, gifts or food.

To Be Eligible for a Bookstore Voucher:

Choosing or Changing Your Option for Bookstore Voucher (Title IV Authorization)

If you are eligible for financial aid in excess of tuition and fees, you may use such funds to pay for other educationally-related charges, such as books and supplies. Please be aware that if you do not grant Wilmington University such authorization, you are responsible for paying for all books, supplies, and other charges incurred.

To Authorize a Book Voucher

You must authorize Wilmington University to use your excess financial aid funds toward bookstore charges each year by answering “yes” to the Title IV Authorization question in your Financial Aid Requirements in MyWilmU.

To Change Your Authorization

If you answered "NO" to the Title IV Authorization question in myWilmU Self-Service, you may submit a Title IV Authorization Revision Form to authorize a bookstore voucher. You can expect the voucher to become available (if you are eligible) within 2 business days after the form is received by the financial aid office.

Using Your Bookstore Voucher

Prior to charging books at the bookstore please read the following:

Your authorization indicates that you read, understand and agree to the conditions detailed below.

Consequence of my withdrawing from all classes during an enrollment period:

A student who receives federal financial aid assistance (Pell Grant, AC Grant, SMART Grant, FSEOG, Work-study, Subsidized and/or Unsubsidized Stafford loans, Parent PLUS loan, Graduate PLUS Loan) to pay for his/her college education has the responsibility to attend all classes until the end of the term. For all students who do NOT complete all classes in the term for any reason, federal regulations require that Student Financial Services perform a “Return of Title IV Funds” calculation. Funds that the student was not eligible to retain are referred to as “unearned funds.” The student will be responsible for paying Wilmington University any charges that exceed the amount of financial aid earned and that must be returned to the government and/or lender.

I understand the following: