DC Payment Information
Business Office

DC Payment Options
Fees may be paid in cash, money order, check, VISA, MasterCard, Discover, Financial Aid, or by enrolling in the DC Monthly Payment Plan. There is a $20 charge for all returned checks.

Defiance College Monthly Payment Plan
A student must complete the application and submit with the signed bill and appropriate payment. No application will be processed without the first payment, which includes a $30 participation fee and signature per semester.

Students must pay all outstanding balances from the previous semester before they can participate in the Plan.

Students cannot pay the following through the Plan: library fines, telephone charges, bookstore charges, and miscellaneous charges.

The DC Payment Plan Application includes coupons; however, there is an automatic credit card option. It is the student's responsibility to know the payment due dates and to make payments on time. A $20 late fee may be assessed if not in by due date.

• Fall Payment Due Dates:
  August 1*, September 1, October 1, November 1
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• Spring Payment Due Dates:
  December 1 *, January 1, February 1, March 1
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• Summer Payment Due Dates:
  May 1 *+, June 1, July 1
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  • * Initial payment is due with the semester signed bill, which is due August 1 (for fall) and December 1 (for spring).
    
  • +Only available for Weekend College Students whose classes start in May and end in August.
    

Late Fee ($100)
Students who do not complete the registration payment process by the due date may be assessed a $100 late fee.

Validation Sticker
A validation sticker is available to a student upon receipt of the signed billing statement and payment. The validation sticker is evidence of completing registration and allows you to attend most campus events free of charge, and sign books out of the Pilgrim Library. Validation stickers are mailed to a resident student's on campus mailbox. Commuter students may pick up a validation sticker in the Business Office.

Refund of Credit Balance
A student may end up with a credit balance after all federal, state, outside scholarships, and college aid have been applied to the student account. Students must be registered and attending classes in order to be issued a refund. If the credit is the overage from a Parent PLUS loan, then the refund check is issued to the parent who took out the PLUS loan. Parents may have the refund issued to the student by completing a Parent Title IV Authorization form, which gives the Business Office permission to issue the overage to the student.

Students and/or Parents may choose to leave the credit balance on the account by completing the Title IV Authorization form that may be obtained in the Business Office.

Stafford Loan - Electronic Funds Transfer
Stafford loans are posted to student accounts electronically. A student has the option to have all or a partial amount of the loan returned to the guarantee lender. To do so, the student must notify the Financial Aid Office in writing. Please note that if the loan(s) create a credit balance a refund check may have been processed. In which, the student is responsible for returning the refund check in order for the funds to be returned to the lender.

HOPE and Lifetime Learning Tax Credit
The Business Office mails the 1098-T forms to the student's permanent address in January.