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2001-2002 RFMS Technical Reference Update Pages Available

Publication Date: April 17, 2001

Author: General Manager: SFA Student Channel

Summary: 2001-2002 RFMS Technical Reference Update Pages Available

Posted on April 17, 2001

TO: All Destination Points

FROM: U.S. Department of Education

RE: 2001-2002 RFMS Technical Reference Update Pages Available

This message announces the posting of update pages for the 2001-2002 RFMS (Pell) Technical Reference on the Department's FSAdownload Web site,

http://fsadownload.ed.gov/index.htm.

The change page posting includes a Tracking Log which notes the page numbers that have changed and a brief description of the change. We have also posted the entire updated document. The documents are posted in both PDF and Word formats.

The RFMS Technical Reference provides programmer specifications and record layouts for schools or other organizations that need to design software systems to interface with RFMS for processing of Pell data. It also contains information on Pell business rules and an RFMS edit/comment code guide (in Appendix D).

If you need any assistance connecting to the SFAdownload Web site or downloading the 2001-2002 RFMS Technical Reference, please contact CPS/WAN Technical Support at 800/330-5947, or via e-mail at CPSWAN@NCS.COM.

If you need assistance with the contents or use of the 2001-2002 RFMS Technical Reference once downloaded from the SFAdownload Web site, please contact the Pell Grant Customer Service Hotline at 800-4PGRANT (800/474-7268) or via e-mail to

Pell.Systems@ed.gov.