This question kind of bothers me, how can I use the OSAP money? Can I just ask it to be listed off from my bank account? How can I use the OSAp money to pay for my rent? Does anyone know of this?

The OSAP money is deposited into your bank account (direct deposit), from where you choose what to do with it.

I understand that. But does that mean I have to take the money from my bank account? And also, how can I use OSAP money to pay my rent? Can I just pull it out and pey the rent with my own money?

Originally Posted by Marvelous

I understand that. But does that mean I have to take the money from my bank account? And also, how can I use OSAP money to pay my rent? Can I just pull it out and pey the rent with my own money?

When money is deposited into your bank account, it stops being "OSAP money". Your bank account won't differentiate between sources, it's all just money in your account.

If you had $5000 in your bank account and then receive $3000 in your September OSAP, you now have $8000 in your bank account. You can decide to use OSAP money for rent for the purposes of your own budgeting, but in practice when you actually pay for things there's no way of differentiating.

So yes, you just pay your rent the same as you normally would - from your bank account - and know that some of that money is coming from OSAP.

How do you pay MacMaster with your OSAP money? Ie Bank card

Originally Posted by fatimaa

How do you pay MacMaster with your OSAP money? Ie Bank card

As stated above, basically OSAP just puts money into your bank account. You can do whatever you want with it. There are different ways to use the money in your bank account (OSAP and otherwise) to pay McMaster. Find them here: http://www.mcmaster.ca/bms/student/S...methods.h tml

(P.S. Sorry, this is a pet peeve of mine. "I.e." does not mean "for example". "e.g" means for example. "I.e." means "that is"/"that is to say"/"in other words"/etc.)

In your online bank account, you can set up your pay clients. Set Mcmaster as the receiver and use your student number as the account number.