A former Penn State administrative assistant told police she was struggling with mounting medical bills when she stole $2,280 from the university — but now she is out of a job and facing two felony charges in connection with the stolen cash.

Lisa Stevenson was fired from her position at Penn State on May 28 after an internal audit concluded that she had stolen money that was meant to be used during a student trip to Kenya, according to court documents.

She is charged with one count each of felony theft and felony receiving stolen property. She is also charged with one count each of misdemeanor theft and misdemeanor receiving stolen property.

Stevenson told police her family had been struggling financially and had growing medical bills to pay, according to the criminal complaint.

She took the money on her last day of work before taking a previously scheduled medical leave, according to court documents.

Stevenson was an administrative support assistant in the College of Engineering, Penn State spokesman Geoffrey Rushton said.

Engineering professor Khanjan Mehta first noticed that the funds were missing, according to court documents.

Mehta could not be reached for comment because he is currently abroad.

On April 20, Mehta contacted Stevenson — who was in charge of collecting the money from students — but Mehta was unable to resolve the issue by speaking with Stevenson, according to court documents.

Mehta then reported the missing funds to College of Engineering administrators who turned the issue over to the Penn State Department of Internal Auditing for further investigation, according to court documents.

Senior Administrator Nathan Cooke, who headed the internal audit, confirmed that $2,280 was missing from the fund that Stevenson oversaw, according to court documents.

Penn State replaced the missing funds so that students could continue the planned trip to Africa, according to court documents.

The investigation found that Stevenson had issued receipts for $2,280 deposited into the fund from March 17 to April 29 — receipts that totaled the exact amount missing from the fund, according to court documents.

On May 8, Cooke interviewed Stevenson in connection with the missing funds, according to court documents.

Stevenson told Cooke that she had stolen the money, according to documents.

In an interview conducted May 30, she later told a Penn State Police investigator that she had stolen the money, according to court documents.

She told police the money was stored in her desk and under her control, according to court documents.

A secondary internal audit revealed another $170 missing from the funds of another student trip.

She told police she had also taken that money, according to court documents.