Summary: EDCAPS Availability and New Fiscal Year Process

TO: All Destination Points

FROM: COD School Relations Center

Subject: Grants Administration and Payment System (GAPS) e-PAYMENTS and EDCAPS Availability Due to Start of New Fiscal Year

We have been informed that due to the Department's end of year closeout activities, the Grants Administration and Payment System (GAPS) e-PAYMENTS system will be unavailable on October 1, 2003 only. As a result, schools will not be able to draw down funds in the Campus-Based, Pell Grant or Direct Loan programs on this one day.

In addition, EDCAPS will be unavailable (other than for E-Payments and E-GRANTS Internet users) between October 1 and October 5th.If your school does not have a sufficient available balance to draw in GAPS for student awards in the Pell Grant and Direct Loan programs, please be aware that adjustments in your Current Funding Level (CFL) as a result of accepted disbursement records submitted after 3:00 PM Thursday, September 25th will not occur until Monday, October 6. The system will be available again to users at 6:30 a.m. Monday, October 6th. During this time, COD will process and acknowledge all disbursement records that you submit so that changes to CFL will be available as soon as possible once EDCAPS is once again available.

If you have any questions regarding this message, please contact the COD School Relations Center: Telephone: 1-800-4PGRANT for Pell Grants, 1-800-848-0978 for Direct Loans, or email: CODSupport@acs-inc.com. For Campus-Based Programs,the Campus-Based Call Center at 1-877-801-7168. For information about call the GAPS at 1-888-336-8930 or view the e-Payments site at https://e-grants.ed.gov/gapsweb/ephome.asp