The U.S. Department of Education has announced that the National Student Loan Data System (NSLDS) will resume its automated post-screening functionality for the 2024–25 and 2025–26 FAFSA cycles during the week of May 5, 2025. This process, which was delayed from its original timeline, ensures that institutions receive updated Institutional Student Information Records (ISIRs) reflecting any changes in a student’s federal aid eligibility.
When weekly post screening resumes, all institutions will receive ISIRs in their SAIG mailbox (IGSG25OP for 2024-25 and IGSG26OP for 2025-26) indicating the most recent change(s) in a student’s eligibility represented by the appropriate post-screening reason code(s). For example, if a Pell-eligible student came close to the Pell lifetime eligibility used (LEU) limit (Reason Code 22), then was post screened and determined to no longer be close to the LEU limit (Reason Code 23), and the student experienced no other eligibility changes related to Pell LEU, the delivered ISIR will report Reason Code 23. ISIRs may contain up to three post-screening reason codes and can be found in positions 3877 to 3882 on the ISIR.
During the first two weeks of post screening, institutions may temporarily receive a high volume of ISIRs with NSLDS post-screening codes for 2024-25 and 2025-26. Additionally, some ISIRs may contain reason codes that were already available in manual files uploaded to the SAIG TG mailbox in February, March, and April of this year (see APP-25-06). Institutions should refer to APP-25-02 for guidance on their responsibilities around resolving disbursements based on this post-screening data.
May 8, 2025 Update: Earlier this week, the Department implemented NSLDS post-screening functionality and delivered updated 2024-25 and 2025-26 FAFSA records to SAIG mailboxes. While many records were processed correctly, in some cases where a student had multiple transactions, an error caused the NSLDS post-screening data to appear based on an earlier transaction instead of the most recent transaction. As a result, for some students, the records with post-screening data delivered this week do not reflect corrections or other updates made after the initial transaction. The Department is working to correct these records based on the student’s most recent ISIR transaction (excluding this week’s post-screening ISIRs) as quickly as possible. In the meantime, FAAs should be sure to review a student’s full record before resolving awards and disbursements based on NSLDS post-screening data received this week. New ISIRs with a new transaction number will be delivered in the coming days. The new transactions will contain the FPS Correction Reason of “NSLDS Postscreening.” The Department will post an update when the delivery of the corrected records is complete.