Federal Student Aid confirmed this past Friday in an electronic announcement that it has successfully reprocessed FAFSA records that were negatively affected by issues with FPS and FA-DDX. In addition, the post details how financial aid administrators can identify reprocessed ISIRs and addresses reports about applications with blank SAI fields or erroneously marked for verification.
What is the status of reprocessed FAFSA applications?
- The Department of Education has reprocessed and retransmitted approximately 9.7 million FAFSA records to institutions; including 1.5 million corrections.
- Records were not reprocessed if they did not result in updated ISIRs or create a subsequent transaction.
- Institutions should no longer use these data files to monitor FAFSA records for issues related to FA-DDX and FPS.
What other issues has the Department identified?
- A small number of ISIRs have blank SAI fields or are marked for verification without the corresponding flags.
- FSA believes that the blank SAI issue is caused by a missing family size value and requires a student correction.
- These issues will be identified with either a 03 or 04 reprocessing code as detailed below.
- The Department will email impacted applicants and contributors with information on correcting this issue.
How can we identify reprocessed FAFSA records?
Administrators will find several fields on the subsequent transactions that indicate why it was reprocessed:
- Field 9: Transaction Source will be set to “5” to indicate FPS as the source of the transaction.
- Field 16: FPS Correction Reason will be set to “P” to indicate Reprocessing.
- Field 572: Reprocessed Reason Code, a two-digit code allowing for cross-referencing reprocessing reasons with the known issues detailed in the Technical FAQ and Known Issues document.
What does each Reprocessed Reason Code mean?
- 02 – Pell eligibility and Pell Grant Eligibility Flag: Any record where the Pell Grant flag was set incorrectly. Will cover both the Flag is Yes and should be blank and vice versa.
- 03 – There are a small number of ISIRs that may be missing some Comment Codes based on a few FPS edits that may need adjustment.
- 04 – No SAI on non-rejected ISIRs: Any record that has no SAI and is not rejected due to SSA Match signature mismatch.
- 05 – Blank (SCA) leading to miscalculated SAIs: Any dependent student where the Student Contribution from Assets was calculated incorrectly.
- 06 – Updated FTI IRS data: A student or contributor on the FAFSA who has incorrect IRS Federal Tax Information (FTI) that resulted in a change to the ISIR will be included.
- 07 – For state agencies, the school codes are not listed in the order the student entered them on the FAFSA.
SOURCE: (GENERAL-24-60) Summary of Department Reprocessing of 2024-25 FAFSA Records