2009-2010 Application Processing Update Michele Brown Director of Applicant Products and Customer Service Marilyn LeBlanc Director of Application Processing
Slide 2Today's Topics Impacts of CCRAA on the 2009-10 FAFSA Additional 2009-10 Information Major changes to FAFSA on the Web Assessment of 2008-09 Changes Alternate Filing Options Real Time PIN
Slide 3Today's Topics FAA Access to CPS Online Need Analysis and New Application Edits 2009-10 Institutional Student Information Record (ISIR) NSLDS History Information on ISIR Important 2009-10 Dates
Slide 4College Cost Reduction and Access Act and the Free Application for Federal Student Aid
Slide 5Adds to Independent Student Definition Foster Care (ages 13 and more seasoned) Emancipated Minor Legal Guardianship Homeless Unaccompanied Youths at Risk of Homelessness Effective for the 2009-2010 Award Year Question about perished guardians/ward of the court refreshed to incorporate child care Adds address for liberated minors Adds address for people under legitimate guardianship Adds inquiries for destitute unaccompanied adolescents and young people at hazard for vagrancy Dependency Questions CCRAA Changes Impact to FAFSA
Slide 6Created the Teacher Education Assistance for College and Higher Education (TEACH) Grant Adds TEACH Grant question to the paper FAFSA for 2009-10 TEACH Grant CCRAA Changes Impact to FAFSA
Slide 7Qualified Education Benefit (529 Plan) possessed by the understudy is an advantage of the parent Distributions from 529 Plans barred from other budgetary help Effective for the 2009-10 Award Year Changes FAFSA guidelines for 529 Plans 529 Plans CCRAA Changes Impact to FAFSA
Slide 8Adds Dislocated Worker notwithstanding sort of expense form and government implies tried advantages test for SNT/Auto Zero EFC Increases time from 12 to 24 months for elected means tried advantages Effective for the 2009-10 Award Year Adds a disengaged laborer address for guardians of ward understudies and for autonomous understudies Changes the elected means tried advantages question to represent two years rather than one Eligibility for Simplified Needs Test CCRAA Changes Impact to FAFSA
Slide 9Excludes the accompanying from determined rundown of untaxed pay Welfare installments Earned Income Credit Special Fuel Tax Credit Excluded outside salary Untaxed Social Security Benefits Deletes Worksheet An Eliminates remote pay avoidances and credit for elected duty on extraordinary energizes from Worksheet B Adds to Worksheet C assessable battle pay that was incorporated into AGI Revised Worksheets will get to be distinctly implanted in application and information will be held Worksheets CCRAA Changes Impact to FAFSA
Slide 10Additional 2009-10 Information
Slide 11Form Design Paper arrange Instructions – 4 pages Application – 6 pages Dependency area moved and Dependency questions reordered to enhance stream College Plans segment moved to Step One Reordered Housing Plan alternatives On Campus With Parents Off Campus Added information component for guardians email address
Slide 12Form Design Pantone hues Parents: Purple Pantone 263 Students: Green Pantone 390C – 75% Federal Register evaluated posting of FAFSA by July 15 th with a 60-day remark period
Slide 13Major Changes to FAFSA on the Web for 2009-10
Slide 14Students who can't give parental information will have the capacity to present their application through FOTW Central Processing System will send email warnings to candidates/guardians of candidates who have a spared application at 7 and 14 days of latency FAFSA on the Web
Slide 15Assessment of 2008-09 Changes
Slide 16Filing Options and the Federal Student Aid PIN PDF FAFSA Real-Time PIN TeleFAFSA Pilot H & R Block Initiative
Slide 17Today's Topics FAA Access to CPS Online Need Analysis and New Application Edits 2009-10 Institutional Student Information Record (ISIR) NSLDS History Information on ISIR Important 2009-10 Dates
Slide 18FAA Access to CPS Online
Slide 19FAA Access to CPS Online Beginning on 01/01/2009, new login and validation prepare Login changes likewise influence clients who dispatch FAA Access through EDExpress Users no longer need to give SSN, last name, DOB and PIN User Name Password Login changes influence Demo website
Slide 20FAA Access to CPS Online Will incorporate all new FAFSA Questions on passage screens, ISIR look at, and yields will take after question request of paper FAFSA Help Topics will be included for new FAFSA addresses All worksheet information components will – Display on FAA Access application section screen Display as a component of Verification Tool Housing question arrange changed to coordinate FAFSA 1 = on grounds 2 = with guardians 3 = off grounds
Slide 21FAA Access to CPS Online CCRAA licenses FAA's to utilize Dependency Overrides (D/O) performed by another school, inside a similar honor year – Student Inquiry page will keep on displaying a total rundown of exchanges for the understudy candidate If a D/O was performed – D/O marker will show up by the exchange School Code for school that played out the D/O will likewise show up With understudy's DRN, FAA's from schools not recorded on the exchange can get to the record and include their school code CCRAA includes separated laborer and vagrancy as cases of when a FAA can utilize proficient judgment
Slide 22Edit Change On July 1, the accompanying refresh was made to FAA Access to CPS Online for 2008-09: Professional Judgment fly up box incapacitated
Slide 23Need Analysis Changes and Application Edits
Slide 24Need Analysis Changes and New Application Edits 2009-10 CCRAA Changes: Updates Income Protection Allowances Increases Automatic Zero EFC wage parameter to $30,000 Dislocated laborer turns into a qualification criteria for Simplified Needs Test (SNT) and Automatic Zero EFC Applicant fits the bill for SNT or Automatic Zero EFC, as proper, if parent of a reliant understudy, or an autonomous understudy – Answers "Yes" to Dislocated Worker question, and Meets SNT or potentially Auto Zero pay edges
Slide 25Need Analysis Changes and Application Edits Eliminated Worksheet An information components from FAFSA and need investigation Deleted Worksheet A from Total Income computation Deleted alters for Worksheet A correlation with SSI and TANF questions Removed Worksheet A from twofold announcing and cross year pay examination alters
Slide 26New Edits New remark code (284) included if Dependency Override performed by a school for an understudy New remark code (295) included if Special Circumstances banner is set for ward understudy submitting FAFSA without parental information New remark code (296) included if Special Circumstances banner was set and parental information is given on an amendment
Slide 27Institutional Student Information Record (ISIR)
Slide 28Institutional Student Information Record (ISIR) 2009-10 ISIR record format posted in August 2009-10 ISIRs in level document organize Includes information components for all new FAFSA questions, including previous Worksheet questions ISIR takes after request of inquiries on the 2009-10 paper FAFSA Date fields augmented No progressions to message classes
Slide 29Institutional Student Information Record (ISIR) Includes information components and figured sums for extra money related data (in the past Worksheet C) and untaxed wage (some time ago Worksheet B) Includes new Special Circumstances hail for ward understudies who did not give parent information on FAFSA on the Web New Type Codes for PDF FAFSA – "U" for English PDF FAFSA "V" for Spanish PDF FAFSA
Slide 30NSLDS History Information
Slide 31NSLDS History Information on ISIR Data included for TEACH Grants, like Pell, ACG, and SMART information Up to 3 detail payment records Overpayment signal Grant changed over to advance banner Aggregate sums dispensed for gifts and concedes changed over to advances
Slide 32NSLDS History Information on ISIR Data included for TEACH Grants, like Pell, ACG, and SMART information, cont'd Comments will be produced for excessive charges New postscreening exchange if give is changed over to an advance
Slide 33Miscellaneous News Update on Next Release of Return of Title IV Funds (R2T4) Software ECASLA – ACG Changes and FAFSA on the Web Current ACG Process and FAFSA on the Web Possible Limited IRS Income Verification Matching Pilot
Slide 34Contact Information Michele Brown: michele.brown@ed.gov 202-377-3203 Marilyn LeBlanc marilyn.leblanc@ed.gov 202-377-3205
Slide 35QUESTIONS?
Slide 36Important 2009-10 Dates
Slide 37Important 2009-2010 Dates August EDE Technical Reference (Software Developers Draft) Application Processing System Specifications for Software Developers, Draft ( in the past "Details for Software Developers" )
Slide 38Important 2009-2010 Dates October 2009-2010 EDExpress Packaging Technical Reference Summary of Changes for the Application Processing System Student Web Application Products Process Guide CPS Test System User Guide
Slide 39Important 2009-2010 Dates November School Electronic Process Guide ISIR Guide SAR Comment Codes and Text EFC Calculation Guide
Slide 40Important 2009-2010 Dates January 1/1: 2009-10 FAA Access to CPS Online accessible 1/1: 2009-10 FAFSA on the Web accessible 1/2: 2009-10 Central Processing System accessible 1/2: 2009-10 EDExpress Release 1.0 accessible Application Processing System Specifications for Software Developers, Final
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