A. Withdrawal and completion of the social file

Every student who wants to present a social aid request, in order to benefit from a reduction on his/her tuition fees, must submit a social file to the Financial Aid Office. This file must be downloaded from the University’s Intranet, from the website by clicking on the following link < Financial Aid Application > printed integrally, and completed manually by the student and his/her parent(s) (or his/her guardian) who should both sign the demand. All the required documents listed at the end of the social file must be presented with the request.

B. Submission of the social file to the Financial Aid Office 

Reduction demands are submitted beforehand: the social files must be presented to the Financial Aid Office between the 1st of April and the 30th of June of the current year, so that the student can benefit from a reduction the following year.

C. Meeting with the social assistant

The student must go to the secretariat of the Financial Aid Office during the aforementioned period, in order to fix a meeting with the related social worker. After having submitted the social file, the Financial Aid Office’s secretary will arrange a meeting between the student and a social worker at USEK; the presence of the parent(s) (or guardian) might be required for this meeting. The information given in the file or verbally during the meeting is confidential. Any false data given to the Financial Aid Office might lead to a cancellation of the reduction on the tuition fees given beforehand to the concerned student. After that, the social worker evaluates the modalities to adopt for the examination of the file: examining the academic file of the concerned student, consulting the Dean / Director of the unit he/she is attached to, home visits (the student agrees, by signing the social file, to accept home visits from a social worker of the University), etc.

D. Decision committee

The final decision regarding the reduction of the tuition fees and its percentage is taken by a committee formed from a multidisciplinary group. It is worth mentioning that no reduction is automatically renewed; the approved reduction is valid for one academic year.

Cumulation
If a student falls in more than one of the aforementioned categories, only the higher reduction will be applied; meaning that students cannot cumulate the reductions and will only benefit from the higher one.

If a student benefits from a reduction given by the Financial Aid Office and, after that, gains an excellence scholarship or works at USEK in a Student Job, the Financial Aid Office defines the amount of the global reduction, taking into account the socio-economic situation of the concerned student.

Application Modalities
The Financial Aid Office has the right to cancel given reductions in the following cases:

• False data given by the student to the Financial Aid Office 
• Disciplinary measures against the student
• Student on probation

For further information, the student can visit the Financial Aid Office or send an email to the following address socialservice@usek.edu.lb