Submitting a Reimbursement Request

The primary method for purchasing items with WEEF funding is to make a purchase personally and then submit a reimbursement claim.

To submit a reimbursement claim you must do the following:

  1. Fill out the University of ݮƵ Finance reimbursement form (excel).

    You can ignore all travel-related entry areas. WEEF will fill in the account, activity, and group values and sign off on the funding as the department-designated reviewer, you must sign as the claimant.

    dzٱ:You cannot submit 2 expense claim forms for the same person on the same day. Student ID and current date are used to generate an ID number for the reimbursement, so creating 2 on the same day will cause an error in UW Finance’s system.
  2. In addition, WEEF also requires you to submit receipts for the purchases, bank account statement(s) showing your name and the purchases (all other transactions can be blurred out), and the applicable page from the WEEF allocations showing the proposal you are drawing from and the amount that was allocated. Please clearly indicate which items correspond to which line items of the allocation, whether by label or (if from funding allocated on or after S22) using the unique account number. Past allocations can be found on the documents page as well as the .

  3. Compile the claim form and supporting documentation into a single PDF, with the name exactly matching: Expense Claim Form Claim_Number-WEEF-Your Name.pdf (Eg: Expense Claim Form 44123456-WEEF-Jane Smith.pdf)

  4. Send the claim form to StudentDesignCentreEngineering@uwaterloo.ca. the subject line must be identical to the claim file name. (Eg. Expense Claim Form 44123456-WEEF-Jane Smith) the email must include the following certification statement, sent from the claimant's email:

    I, CLAIMANT_NAME, certify that all expenditures in this claim adhere to the University’s policies, were incurred by me for University purposes, and have not been/will not be reimbursed from another source.

“IMPORTANT: As of March 15, 2025, receipts for expenses beyond one year old will no longer be eligible for reimbursement per Policy 31 - University Expenses (2.A.iii). After this time, on a go-forward basis, Concur will actively prevent submissions of receipts greater than one year old. This deadline also applies to any expenses submitted using the Expense Claim Form outside of Concur.”