Section 457-605-6 - Payment ProceduresA. Each applicant designated as a recipient of a Byrd Scholarship will receive an award letter from the chief executive officer of the Authority prior to the end of the academic year of the high school from which the recipient is graduating.B. Each recipient must provide a letter of acceptance from an institution of higher education and a Statement of Selective Service Registration Status.C. Except as provided in subsection E. below, upon verification of attendance from officials of the higher education institution payment in the amount of $1500 will be made to the institution's Office of Student Financial Aid on account of the recipient student.D. Any Robert C. Byrd Honors Scholarship grant awarded shall not be included in any needs test in connection with the awarding of any grant or the making of any loan under Title IV of the Higher Education Act or any other provision of federal law relating to educational financial assistance.E. An award must be reduced so that the total amount of federal financial aid including the award does not exceed the total cost of attendance as determined by the institution of higher education the grant recipient is attending. Loans should be reduced before the Byrd scholarship award. The Byrd Scholarship award should be reduced before a Pell grant.F. If after disbursing an award the Authority determines that a recipient was ineligible to receive the award, the recipient must repay to the Authority the full amount of the award received during the period the recipient was ineligible.94- 457 C.M.R. ch. 605, § 6