Does a student’s repentance from cheating entitle him to his stipend?

Question : Your Eminence the Shaykh! If a student has graduated from high school and cheated in some of its exams, but then he was guided and repented to Allah the Exalted from that sin, and he began seeking knowledge, then does repentance expiate what came before, and does this entitle the student to his stipend? Please give us a ruling, may Allah reward you, and may Allah reward the one who helps a poor person and teaches an ignorant person, and may Allah reward you with good.

Answer : If the cheating occurred in the years before graduation and he repented from it, then it does not harm him. But the problem is if the cheating was in the certificate upon which things are based.