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One Big Beautiful Bill (OB3) - Institutional Loan LimitsProvision Description: The Institutional Loan Limits provision allows institutions to impose their own lower program-level loan limits for an academic year for student a…Michael Lauria-Oracle 7 views 0 comments 0 points Started by Michael Lauria-Oracle Student Financial Aid -
One Big Beautiful Bill (OB3) - Graduate and Professional Loan LimitsProvision Description: The Graduate and Professional Loan Limits provision sets the Annual loan limits to $20,500 for grad students and $50,000 for professional students…Michael Lauria-Oracle 13 views 0 comments 0 points Started by Michael Lauria-Oracle Student Financial Aid
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One Big Beautiful Bill (OB3) – Interim Exception Document + PLUS Loan Program UpdatesSummary These updates allow your school to package students in the 26/27 award year. A new Interim exception document, which is referenced in the updated PLUS and Unsubs…Alexander Thompson 92 views 4 comments 0 points Most recent by Alexander Thompson Student Financial Aid -
One Big Beautiful Bill Act - Interim Configuration for 26/27 Award YearIntroduction We are reaching out to keep you informed about the changes resulting from the One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBB), signed into law on July 4th, 2025 and to pr…Alexander Thompson 122 views 4 comments 0 points Most recent by Alexander Thompson Student Financial Aid
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One Big Beautiful Bill (OB3) – Federal Loan Lifetime and Aggregate Limit ReportingDuring our recent “One Big Beautiful Bill” session on October 24th, we introduced enhancements to our federal loan reporting capabilities, namely, a new product report a…
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One Big Beautiful Bill (OB3) - Full COA Scholarship and Grant ExclusionProvision Description: The Full COA Scholarship and Grant Exclusion provision states students who receive grants or scholarships from non-federal sources covering their …Michael Lauria-Oracle 35 views 0 comments 0 points Started by Michael Lauria-Oracle Student Financial Aid
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SFA and the One Big Beautiful Bill (OBBB) – Interim Configuration and Reporting Customer SessionThank you to everyone who joined last Friday’s session discussing the “One Big Beautiful Bill” (OBBB) Student Financial Aid (SFA) Interim Configuration and Reporting Upd…
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Required Annual Runtime Certificate Update for FTI-SAIG Software UseIt has come to our attention that late last week ED has communicated information on the annual expiration of the runtime certificate that is required to be downloaded an…Michael Lauria-Oracle 309 views 4 comments 0 points Most recent by Dawnya French Student Financial Aid
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Oracle Student Financial Aid and the One Big Beautiful Bill (OBBB) Customer SessionThank you to everyone who joined our recent session discussing the “One Big, Beautiful Bill” (OBBB) and its impact on Student Financial Aid (SFA) processes. We truly app…
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Update to 2026-2027 FISAP InstructionsSummary: On July 31, 2025, the Department of Education posted an update the the 2026-2027 FISAP Instructions to provide additional instructions for completing Part VI, S…
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FAFSA_End_Date value for 2025-2026 in REGULATORY_DEADLINES.csv baseline configuration workbookSummary: Question about the FAFSA_End_Date value for 2025-2026 in REGULATORY_DEADLINES.csv baseline configuration workbook Content (please ensure you mask any confidenti… -
Support of Department of Education's February 21st 24/25 and 25/26 ISIR UpdatesOn February 21st the Department of Education released an update to Volumes 5 and 7 of the FAFSA Specification Guides for the 24/25 and 25/26 ISIR Award Years (found here…
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24/25 AHSI25OP fileOn July 16th, 2024 the Department of Education sent out an Electronic Announcement letting schools know that a new AHSI25OP message class will be sent to their SAIG mail…
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24/25 ISIR CorrectionsOn July 30th, 2024 the Department of Education sent out an Electronic Announcement informing schools that batch corrections will be deferred until the 25/26 Award Year. …
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24-25 Additional Identity Verification [AHSI25OP]Summary: GEN-24-84 announcement on 7/9/24 Dept. of Ed new SAIG message class file AHSI25OP for V4/V5 verification requirements tracking for identity. [Submitted on behal…SANDRA DUNSON 61 views 1 comment 0 points Most recent by Desiree Dreszer-Oracle Student Financial Aid
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Support of Department of Education's May 22nd, 24/25 ISIR UpdatesOn May 22nd the Department of Education released an update to Volumes 4,5,6 and 7 of the FAFSA Specification Guides. Those updates can be found here. After review, we de…
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Workaround ED 24/25 ISIR Issues in SFAOn April 3rd, the Department of Education outlined their plan to send schools a list of ISIR UUIDs that need ED issues resolved before they can be used to award your stu…Desiree Dreszer-Oracle 31 views 0 comments 0 points Started by Desiree Dreszer-Oracle Student Financial Aid -
Attention: Important Information Regarding your New FTI Mailbox Setup in ProductionBefore you can use the new FTI-SAIG Mailbox feature for processing 24/25 ISIRs in Production, there are several steps that you MUST complete: First you must visit the De…Michael Lauria-Oracle 372 views 1 comment 0 points Most recent by Michael Lauria-Oracle Student Financial Aid
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How is Oracle being prevented from accessing FTI?During our discussions of who can and cannot view ISIR FTI information internally, the topic of Oracle's access to FTI came up. Can you provide information about how Ora…JBennett 22 views 3 comments 0 points Most recent by Paul L Koch-Support-Oracle Student Financial Aid
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DRAFT Student Financial Aid 2024-25 Award Year UpdatesThe FAFSA Simplification Act, enacted into law as part of the Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2021 and amended by the Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2022, represe…Desiree Dreszer-Oracle 1.8K views 11 comments 1 point Most recent by Desiree Dreszer-Oracle Student Financial Aid
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24/25 Consolidated Appropriations Act ISIR Mapping and Configuration Approach UpdateWe are excited to post this announcement that continues our journey together through the 24/25 Consolidated Appropriation Act in Oracle Student Financial Aid! Our team i…
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Event Follow Up on Document Owners and IASG/CFH for 24/25Thank you all for joining our event on Wednesday where we covered the updated functionality related to processing financial aid for the 2024-25 Award Year in Oracle Stud…Desiree Dreszer-Oracle 61 views 2 comments 0 points Most recent by Desiree Dreszer-Oracle Student Financial Aid
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2024-25 Initial ISIR Pre-ReleaseWe are excited to share that we will be having an early release for functionality related to processing financial aid for the 2024-25 Award Year in Student Financial Aid…Desiree Dreszer-Oracle 854 views 9 comments 0 points Most recent by Desiree Dreszer-Oracle Student Financial Aid
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Dept of Ed targets end of January for 2024-25 ISIRs, Our Contingency Plan SuggestionsWe wanted to make sure that the community was aware that the Department of Education published Update on the Simplified, Streamlined, Redesigned 2024-25 FAFSA (Updated D…Desiree Dreszer-Oracle 181 views 0 comments 1 point Started by Desiree Dreszer-Oracle Student Financial Aid
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24-25 ISIR File SamplesLast Thursday (9/28), ED published their first set of 24-25 ISIR file samples. Here is the link to the announcement: https://fsapartners.ed.gov/knowledge-center/library/…
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Consolidated Appropriations Act: Letter Impacts for ISIR FieldsAs we continue to review the Consolidated Appropriations Act effects on financial aid processing within SFP we are looking into possible updates needed for letter genera…
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Consolidated Appropriations Act: ISIR Discrepancy Corrections for Financial FieldsAs we start to dive into the 2024-2025 ISIR updates, we are working on updating our baseline configuration to support all the upcoming changes. As you may know, the new …
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Consolidated Appropriations Act: Need determinations using the SAII wanted to provide an update on the topic of calculating need in packaging using the new Student Aid Index (SAI) value. The attached document outlines our approach with…Alexander Thompson 72 views 1 comment 0 points Most recent by Alexander Thompson Student Financial Aid
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Yearly FISAP UpdateThis year's yearly FISAP updates contain cosmetic enhancements to the file layout as well as updated dates within the report itself. These changes will be included in th…
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Consolidated Appropriations Act: Pell UpdatesThank you for joining our last CCC event and as discussed we are creating this follow up post to cover Pell examples in more detail. Below you will find our latest appro…Michael Lauria-Oracle 12 views 0 comments 0 points Started by Michael Lauria-Oracle Student Financial Aid