| PublicationDate: 3/12/96 Summary: 1996-97 FAFSA Processing - Announcement #7 Author: ODAS - Office of the Deputy Assistant Secretary - SFA Announcement #7 - March 12, 1996 1996-97 FAFSA Processing Status Report In keeping with our commitment to keep you informed about the status of application processing for the 1996-97 award year, we are providing this daily announcement. This announcement is number seven in the series. A. EDE Technical Reference The Department has received several requests for the final 1996-97 ISIR record layout. The final EDE Technical Reference, which contains the ISIR record layout, was made available for downloading on OPEnet today. The SFA BBS will make this document available for downloading in the near future. B. Reject Codes 15 and 16 The Department has been asked to provide clarification regarding CPS reject codes 15 and 16. Reject code 15 occurs on dependent student applications or SARs that are missing the required parent signature. Reject code 16 occurs on FAFSA Express applications. As released in the Department's March 7 processing update message, applications that are filed via FAFSA Express are held by the CPS up to 21 days. If a signature page for that record is not received by the CPS during that 21-day period, the application record is processed and receives a reject 16. For 1996-97, FAFSA Express applications are continuing to be held by the CPS until history correction startup, which is scheduled to begin this Friday. As indicated last week, keying and processing of signature pages for FAFSA Express applications will be completed first. Once history correction processing begins, all 1996-97 FAFSA Express records will be computed by the CPS. C. Retransmitted 1996-97 ISIRS The Department has received several questions about a message that was issued by the Central Processing System on Friday, March 8, 1996. Following is a copy of that message. The Department will be providing more information to you in the near future. The Central Processing System will be transmitting an ISIR batch to any destination point who received 1996-97 ISIRs from the processing dates 2/1/96 through 2/28/96. This batch will be sent to the Title IV WAN network during the week of 3/11/96. The original ISIR records that destination points received were missing the following data from both institution and state agency ISIRs: Record position: 1410 - assumed student earned income credit 1415 - assumed parent earned income credit 1420 - assumed student non-taxable other income 1425 - assumed parent non-taxable other income 1430 - assumed parent non-taxable AFDC 1435 - assumed parent child support 1440 - assumed legal dependents The following fields were missing only from state agency ISIRs: Record position: 928 - transaction type 1452 - destination number In addition, the first nine processing dates (2/1/96 - 2/13/96) contained packed hexadecimal data in the serial number (record position 923). In this retransmitted batch, this is corrected to contain non-packed, numeric data. The batch will contain ISIRs with the same transaction number for the records you already received. You should replace those records with the new ones. THE EFC ON THE RECORDS WAS NOT AFFECTED; the data was simply not moved to the ISIR. For EDExpress DOS users, to add these same number transactions to your ISIR databases, you will need to delete your ISIR database, import this new file, and then import those data files you have received and imported for processing for dates of 2/29/96 through the current date. If you are going to use the application module of express for windows, you should import this new batch for processing dates 2/1/96 to 2/28/96 plus all the batches with records processed 2/29/96 and after that you have received. We regret any inconvenience this may cause your institution(s). Please contact CPS Customer Service at 800-330-5947 if you have any questions regarding this matter. |