| PublicationDate: 1/6/97 Summary: Mailing Status on 1997-98 Renewal Applications Author: OPE - Office of the Assistant Secretary for OPE Posted January 6, 1997 Date: January 3, 1997 TO : All EDE Destination Points FROM: Betsy Hicks Deputy Assistant Secretary, SFAP RE: Mailing Status on 1997-98 Renewal Applications On December 19, 1996, the Department transmitted a message to EDE destination points via the Title IV Wide Area Network. That message notified institutions that the Central Processing System (CPS) had sent 93,000 Renewal Applications for 1997-98 with incorrect institution codes and missing parent information. These erroneous Renewal Applications had been mailed to students whose permanent address zip code range was between 97000 and 97900. This included the states of Oregon and Idaho. The CPS sent each affected student a letter telling them a corrected Renewal Application would be mailed to them. The letter further recommended that students with questions call the Federal Student Aid Information Center at (800) 4FED-AID. The CPS corrected the Renewal Applications and began printing on December 20 and mailed these on December 23. The electronic and bulk-printed Renewal Application data requested by schools contained the correct institution codes and parent data which appear on the Renewal Application database. As an update, as noted above, the CPS began mailing 1997-98 Renewal Applications directly to students on December 23, 1996. The mailing this year is being done in reverse zip code order, starting with the west coast. As of January 3, 1997, the CPS is still mailing to students west of Colorado, including those with California, Idaho and Montana zip codes. The CPS is mailing between 350,000 and 400,000 Renewal applications per day and has mailed approximately 2.6 million of the more than 7 million renewal applications that will be mailed for this processing cycle. We estimate that the mailing will be completed by January 20, 1997. If you have further questions on this process, please contact CPS Customer Service at (800) 330-5947, option 8, then option 1. |