Breakdown of a Student Statement

New changes made to the monthly Statements

  1. Updated the Total Balance Owed to clarify the total remaining balance owed on the student's account.
  2. Merged all Current Term Statement Charges & provided a sum of each Account Type of Tuition, Housing, Other, & Interest, reflecting the total posted charges for that term.
  3. Combined all the Current Term Credits/Payments.
  4. Added a section for combined prior term balances under Previous Remaining Balances.
  5. Separated the Current Term Refunds from all other sections, to easily identify when & how much of a refund a student received 
  • Total Balance Owed:

    This number is the overall amount owed on the account. 

    It is the result of any remaining current term balances & any previous remaining balances. 

     

  • Current Term Statement Charge break down:
    • TUITION: Tuition, Mandatory Fees, Tuition late fees, course fees &, sometimes, Amount owed to VA charges or Refund Owed to CWU.
    • HOUSING: All Housing & Dining charges, CWU off campus rent, housing late fees, processing fees, deposits, & damaged property charges. 
    • OTHER: All Auxiliary services & other misc.. charges are included in this section.
      • Examples: Bookstore, Parking, Rec Center, ECLC, Orientation fees, Connection card, testing services, collections fees, payment plan admin fees, payment plan late fees, etc. 
    • INTEREST: Mandatory 1% interest charges are assessed on the 5th of every month for  each charge that is +30 days past the due date. 

    The 1% interest charge is based on RCW 43.17.240

  • Current Term Credits/Payments break down:

    • Direct payments-Self-service eCheck/Credit Card, Payment General, Wire payments, GET payments, Ch 33 VA payments, Payment Non-cash, Payroll Deduction payments, & Collections payments, etc.
    • Department credits-Rec Center, bookstore, Library, Multimodal, Parking, Tuition, Tuition late fee credits, Housing late fee credits, course fee credits, Aviation, Dining plan & Res Hall credits, etc.
    • Scholarships, Waivers, & Awards
    • Financial Aid- Federal loans, private/alternative loans, grants, institution aid, short term loans, etc.
      • NOTE: Under the date, it will either have the date aid was disbursed or blank, which means the aid has been authorized but has yet to disbursed onto the account.
    • Payment plan (Payment) Credit

  • Remaining Current Term Balance:

    This balance is calculated by subtracting the Current term charges & the Current term credits/payments.

    • If you do not have any remaining balance, this field will say $0.00 or be blank.
    • If you have a negative remaining balance (credit/payment), with no outstanding charges, any refundable credit/payment will be refunded. 

    (Not all unapplied credits/payments are refundable to the student)

For a breakdown of your specific charges on your account

  1. Navigate to your MyCWU
  2. Select Click here to see your account details under the Account Summary section
    • Or click Make a Payment to be directed to your payment portal where you can generate an OnDemand statement.

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