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Corrections to SAR/ISIR Guide

PublicationDate: 3/3/99
Summary: Corrections to SAR/ISIR Guide
Author: CPS - Central Processing System (CPS)


Posted on March 3, 1999

TO: Financial Aid Administrators
FROM: Central Processing System
RE: Corrections to SAR/ISIR Guide

This notice is to provide corrections to Action Letter #5: A Guide to 1999-2000 SARs and ISIRs.

- In appendix B, on page B-3, Selective Service Registration results that produce comment 057 also produce the SAR C code. Indication of the SAR C code for this match result was inadvertently omitted from the initial action letter.

- Also in appendix B, on page B-13, Veterans Affairs match results that produce comment 174 incorrectly reference ED’s SSN valid range check in the “reason for Comment/Results column.”

- Appendix G is a sample ISIR that incorrectly references a data match of DED. The label "DED", which is for the Social Security Administration (SSA) Date of Death, is in the current version of EDExpress but will be removed in Version 5.1, as there is no separate match for the date of death. The date of death indicator is already incorporated into the SSN Match flag as value "5." A new sample ISIR is provided.

We will NOT disseminate hardcopy correction pages to 1999-2000 Action Letter #5.

To access these corrected pages from IFAP (
http://ifap.ed.gov):

1) Click on the Bookshelf icon,
2) Scroll down and click on "SAR and ISIR Materials"
3) Click on "By 1999-2000 Award Year"
4) Click on Appendix B or on Appendix G

If you have any questions, contact the SFA Customer Support Branch on 1-800-433--7327.