{"id":4020,"date":"2017-03-29T16:06:59","date_gmt":"2017-03-29T21:06:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/finances\/finances\/types-of-financial-aid\/"},"modified":"2026-03-26T12:12:14","modified_gmt":"2026-03-26T17:12:14","slug":"types-of-financial-aid","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/finances\/finances\/types-of-financial-aid\/","title":{"rendered":"Types of Financial Aid"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Sources of financial aid to help you pay for college include the following:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/finances\/scholarships\/\">Scholarships<\/a><\/strong> are a type of gift aid and do not need to be repaid.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/finances\/finances\/types-of-financial-aid\/grants-and-waivers\/\">Grants<\/a><\/strong> are gift aid and, in most cases, do not have to be repaid if the enrollment period is completed.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/finances\/finances\/loans\/\">Loans<\/a><\/strong> are funding that must be repaid.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/finances\/finances\/work-study-student-employment\/\">Federal work-study<\/a><\/strong> provides part-time employment to degree-seeking students with financial need.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/uwm.joinhandshake.com\/\">Part-time work<\/a><\/strong> opportunities are available at UWM and in the City of Milwaukee.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/finances\/finances\/veterans-services\/\"><strong>Military Education Benefits<\/strong><\/a> are state and federal funds available to current and past members of the military, as well as their qualifying dependents.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sources of financial aid to help you pay for college include the following:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"parent":4017,"menu_order":16,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","uwm_wg_additional_authors":[3041,19586,34594,37275,33688]},"class_list":["post-4020","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.3 (Yoast SEO v27.3) - 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