Publication Date: February 8, 2007 Author: G. Kay Jacks, General Manager, Application, Operations and Delivery Services, Federal Student Aid Summary: Impact on COD Processing February 18-19, 2007 Posted on 02-08-2007 We are planning to execute an extended Common Origination and Disbursement (COD) System maintenance activity on February 18, 2007. This activity will result in outages of certain COD System functionality for an extended period of time. We appreciate your patience and understanding as we complete this important activity. In addition, funding requests will not be processed on February 19, 2007, the Washington’s Birthday Federal holiday. Below we explain how this activity and the holiday will impact COD System availability and processing. Please review this information to determine if processing at your school will be affected. COD System MaintenanceOn Sunday, February 18, 2007, we will perform extended system maintenance on the COD System. In addition, the Student Aid Internet Gateway (SAIG) will be unavailable from 3:00 A.M. until 11:00 A.M. (ET) on February 18 th due to its regular Sunday morning maintenance. For Grant and Direct Loan Participants—
For Direct Loan Participants—
Washington’s Birthday Federal HolidayMonday, February 19, 2007 is the Washington’s Birthday Federal holiday. For Grant and Direct Loan Participants—
Complete information regarding processing and customer service hours for COD and other Federal Student Aid/Department of Education call centers on the holiday is posted in the "Washington's Birthday Federal Holiday Processing and Customer Service Hours" Electronic Announcement. Contact Information If you have any questions about this announcement, contact the COD School Relations Center at 800/4PGRANT for ACG, National SMART Grant, and Pell Grant (800/474-7268) or 800/848-0978 for Direct Loan. You may also e-mail CODSupport@acs-inc.com. |