Payment Request forms

Truman Scholars selected in 2005 and subsequent years are eligible to receive up to $15,000 for the first year of graduate study, and $15,000 for their final year of graduate study. If you have generous financial aid from your institution or other sources, an alternative payment plan is available upon written request.  Please explain any additional sources of funding in your Graduate School Proposal.
If your program is shorter than two years, you may not be eligible for the full $30,000. You will need to discuss the details of your program with the Executive Secretary.

The Truman Scholarship covers your actual expenses for tuition and required fees, your average expenses for room and board, and up to $1000 per year for books.  The Foundation cannot duplicate funding from other sources (i.e. school scholarships, grants and fellowships).  The Foundation bylaws dictate that we cannot pay for laptop computers, travel, airfare, or office supplies

Additional expenses may include your utilities (which should not be included under "Room and Board"), any "non-mandatory" health insurance, transportation costs, and any other personal costs except air travel.  If you have undesignated aid from another source—meaning the source does not specify how the support should be used—this aid may be used to cover your additional expenses. You may then be eligible to receive more of your Truman funding.

Yes.  They must be submitted before the term ends (December 15 for the fall term, May 15 for the spring term).  The earliest the transfer of funding will be made is three weeks prior to the start of the term.

The Foundation issues each Scholar a maximum of three payments per year; therefore, if you attend an institution that is on a semester system, you should number the first payment 1 of 2 and the second 2 of 2.  If your institution is on a trimester or quarter system, you should number the payments 1 of 3, 2 of 3, and 3 of 3.

The Foundation is authorized to grant funds to meet a Scholar's educational expenses as determined by our federal formula, up to but not exceeding their allotment of funds for the academic year.  The Foundation will pay as much of the eligible expenses at the time the first term's request is processed, rather than dividing the year's funds into equal term allotments.  You may receive all of a year's funding in a single term if your eligible expenses for the term are equal to or exceed your annual allotment.  The Foundation will pro-rate your funds ONLY if you submit a request in writing.

Your Educational Expenses and Support Form lists the average cost for the academic year as determined by your Financial Aid Office.  If you think that you will be taking extra credits, please notify the Financial Aid Office so that the costs for these additional classes can be incorporated in the figures on your form.  Summer is the first term of the academic year.  You will not be able to “use up” funding from the academic year in the following summer.  Funding you receive for summer study is deducted from the total amount of funding you are eligible to receive during the following fall and spring terms of that academic year.

You should notify the Foundation about any changes immediately, especially if this means a change in your status (i.e. from full-time to part-time student).  If a refund is due to the Foundation, you have the option of either sending a check (payable to the Harry S. Truman Memorial Trust Fund) OR you may request that the amount of the overpayment be deducted from your next term's disbursement.

No.  The Truman Scholarship does not function like a checking account.  A Scholar cannot carry over the “balance” of unused funds to the next year, even if their expenses increase.

The Educational Expenses and Support Form should be completed in foreign currency. Complete the Payment Request form in the foreign currency until step 13c.  Conversions will be done by the foundation on step 13d.  Transfer of funding can only be made to domestic bank accounts.