Tentative Disbursement Dates

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Attention Cerritos College Students
Important Changes to Financial Aid Disbursements

Effective 10/2: Cerritos College will no longer use BankMobile to process Financial Aid disbursements. Moving forward, all student refunds will be issued as a physical paper check and mailed directly to the mailing address on file.

To ensure you receive your funds without delay, you must verify and update your contact details as soon as possible.

📋 Action Required: Update Your Address

Please follow these steps to review and update your information:

  • Log into your MyCerritos student portal.
  • Navigate to the Student Center section.
  • Click on Personal Information to view your current details.
  • Verify your Mailing Address and update it if it is incorrect or outdated.

Note: Checks returned to the college due to an incorrect address will cause significant delays in receiving your funds.

If you have any questions or need assistance accessing your portal, please contact the Financial Aid Office.

2026-2027 Disbursement Schedule 

Census date for Fall 2026 is 9/14/26. Adjustments will be made for any classes dropped or added up to this date.

How to check for your disbursement

Note: Once your first class has started your Grants / Loans will get released based off the disbursement schedule as long as you are meeting our SAP Standards and program requirements.

Pell Grant

1st Disbursement: Monday, August 17, 2026

2nd Disbursement: Friday, September 18, 2026

Cal Grant & Student Success Completion Grant

Disbursement: Friday, August 28, 2026

SEOG

Disbursement: Friday, September 4, 2026

Loans

Disbursement: Friday, September 25, 2026

Census date for Spring 2027 is 2/8/27. Adjustments will be made for any classes dropped or added up to this date.

How to check for your disbursement 

Note: Once your first class has started your Grants / Loans will get released based off the disbursement schedule as long as you are meeting our SAP Standards and program requirements.

Pell Grant

1st Disbursement: Monday, January 11, 2027

2nd Disbursement: Friday, February 12, 2027

Cal Grant & Student Success Completion Grant

Disbursement: Monday, January 25, 2027

SEOG

Disbursement: Friday, February 5, 2027

Loans

Disbursement: Friday, February 26, 2027

Census date for Summer 2027 is 6/7/27. Adjustments will be made for any classes dropped or added up to this date.

How to check for your disbursement 

Note: Once your first class has started your Grants will get released based off the disbursement schedule as long as you are meeting our SAP Standards and program requirements.

Pell Grant

Disbursement: Monday, May 24, 2027

Note: If you do not have a class beginning on May 24, 2027 you will not be disbursed until at least one of your classes starts. There is only one Pell Grant disbursement for summer which includes all units enrolled for the summer semester.

How to check for your disbursement


Important Information about Disbursements:

  1. Students who are on Warning status may experience a financial aid disbursement delay in their next semester until grades are posted and SAP is evaluated.
  2. Students who are on Disqualification status will NOT receive a disbursement unless they submit an SAP Appeal by the posted deadline and it is approved. 
  3. Waitlist courses will not be considered and are not officially enrolled units.
  4. We will be recalculating Pell as of the census date and making adjustments based on enrollment on that date. Any drops/adds after census will not be considered.
  5. Students may only receive federal financial aid funding for one repetition of a previously passed course (A, B, C, D, P).
  6. Students enrolled in distance education programs (online courses) may experience a delay in their Title IV financial aid disbursement until the student has participated in the distance education program for a longer and more substantiated period of time (e.g., until an exam has been given, completed, and graded or a paper has been submitted).
  7. There is generally two disbursements for Pell during fall and spring semesters and one disbursement only for summer. There are some exceptions to this if students are awarded late in the semester and for students who add classes resulting in an adjustment.
  8. New loan borrowers must wait 30 days before they can receive their disbursement.
  9. Loan disbursement cannot be processed unless you are officially enrolled in at least 6 eligible financial aid units and classes have begun.