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Student Financial Aid
Discussion List
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DRAFT Release Notes: Features to Support One Big Beautiful Bill (OBBB)We are excited to share DRAFT release notes for new and updated Oracle Student Financial Aid (SFA) features to comply with the One Big Beautiful Bill (OBBB) for the 2026… -
Support of Department of Education's January 2026 ISIR UpdatesOn January 21st, 2026, the U.S. Department of Education released important updates to Volumes 4, 5, 6 and 7 of the FAFSA Specifications Guide for the 2025–26 and 2026–27… -
Preparing for the February Maintenance Pack for 26A ReleaseWe are pleased to announce the upcoming February Maintenance Pack for Oracle Student Financial Aid, with deployment to non-production environments scheduled for February…
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Customer Poll: New <ProgramAttendanceBeginDate> tag in CODWe recently learned via our Software Vendor session with ED that a new tag, , will be required in the COD file outbound request for certain students' undergraduate Direc…
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Preparing for the 26A ReleaseWe are announcing the upcoming 26A Release for Oracle Student Financial Aid, which delivers new capabilities to further enhance compliance, security, data accessibility,…
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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… -
One Big Beautiful Bill Act changes for the 26/27 Award YearIntroduction We are reaching out to keep you informed about the upcoming changes resulting from the One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBB), signed into law on July 4th, 2025.…
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SACT v10 Update: Now Supports IAM (v2 API) IntegrationSummary: SACT v10 Update: Now Supports IAM (v2 API) Integration Content (please ensure you mask any confidential information): In the spirit of a Oracle SFP Administrati… -
Preparing for the 24C ReleaseWe are excited for the upcoming 24C release, which will be deployed to your non production environments on July 10, 2024, and wanted to share several resources available…
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Introducing the Oracle SFP Administration Community Toolkit (SACT)We are excited to announce a Beta release of Oracle SFP Administration Community Toolkit (SACT), that can be tested, adopted, and updated as you see fit. What does it do…
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Packaging VA Benefits and Athletics ScholarshipsWe wanted to share our best practice for how to handle packaging Veterans benefits and Athletics scholarship funds in SFP. These updates can be made to other funding sou…
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NSLDS FAH Header Record DateSummary: I wanted to give a heads-up on an issue Michigan State University is currently experiencing with our FAH history files from NSLDS. We are receiving files, but t…
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Updated Product Reports, Letters and Data ModelsWith the 24A release we provided access to our new V2 views that pull in data from the 24/25 ISIR, and within 24B we will be delivering updates to our Data Models, Produ…
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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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Let’s start the conversation for Student Financial PlanningSummary Welcome to the Student Financial Planning Forum! Content The Student Financial Planning Forum is for topics associated with US Financial Aid support (eligibility…
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Incorrect NSLDS File Format and Information being sent by EDWe have been made aware that NSLDS is currently experiencing issues around incorrect file date formatting and sending incorrect values for Aggregate OPB fields which cou…
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Is SFA always trying to match (ISIRs) on middle nameWe do not have middle name (or middle initial) in any of our ISIR matching criteria combinations in our SCHOOL workbook. When trying to load 2027 ISIRs, we have several …
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Self-service access to Student Financial Aid compliance documentsSelf-service access to Student Financial Aid compliance documents for customers with active subscriptions has been enabled in the OCI Cloud Console. Customers can use th… -
Enabling a CSV file format in Oracle Analytics ServerAt times, it may be necessary to run a product or custom report out of OAS in a CSV format. Since OAS does not enable this option by default, our product reports do not …
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Updates to V4 and V5 VerificationUPDATE 8/14 - Please see comment below regarding changes to our initial post including new Award Year specific guidelines and link to the Department of Education's lates…
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Preparing for the 25C ReleaseWithin the 25C Release we are delivering reporting and security updates, a number of critical bug fixes, as well as underlining updates to platform technologies that are…
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Action Required: Move to OCI IAM Migrated modeAs previously mentioned in Office Hours, CCC posts and CCC events your environments will be moved to Migrated Mode for Oracle IAM. By default, we will move the same non-…
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Configuring your external IDP with OCI IAMIf configuring an external identity provider, we recommend that you set up a SAML external identity provider for authentication and authorization while using the SCIM (S…
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NSLDS Post-screening ISIRsWe wanted to pass on information we received from our Department of Education contact this morning. NSLDS post-screening for the 2024-2025 and 2025-2026 Award Years will…
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Support of the Department of Education’s December 27th ISIR updatesOn December 27th, the Department of Education released an update to Volumes 4B and 7 of the FAFSA Specification Guides. Those updates can be found here. After review, we…
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Generative AI Financial Aid Automation Configuration ToolkitWe are excited to announce the Generative AI Financial Aid Automation Configuration Toolkit, which supports and enhances the standard available SFP documentation of the …
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Preparing for the 25A ReleaseWe are excited for the upcoming 25A Release, which we are targeting to deploy to your non production environments on January 6, 2025 and to your production environment o…
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Awarding Title IV Funds for 2025-26 Award Year Prior to Published Pell AmountsSince the Department of Education has not published the official min and max values for 2025-26 Pell, baseline configuration for Student Financial Aid does not yet inclu…
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Preparing for the November Maintenance Pack for 24DWe are excited for the upcoming November Maintenance Pack for 24D, which we are targeting to deploy to your non production environments on Dec 1, 2024 and to your produc…
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Important updates to Oracle SFP Administration Community Toolkit (SACT)The SFP Administration Community Toolkit (SACT) offers a community-driven toolkit for everyday use by professionals that work with Oracle SFP. The toolkit is comprised o…
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Preparing for the 24D ReleaseWe are excited for the upcoming 24D release, which will be deployed to your non production environments on Oct 7, 2024, and wanted to share several resources available t…
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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…
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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…
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SFP managing SAI calculation is present in ISIR as both Manual and FTI-M fieldsSummary: When the field that impacts SAI calculation is present in ISIR as both Manual and FTI-M fields (for example AGI), how will corrections to the field values be ha…
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Preparing for the 23D ReleaseWe are excited for the upcoming 23D release, which will be available October 9, 2023, and we wanted to share several resources available to assist with preparing for the…
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Updates to OAS SQL for “Failed to Load SQL” errorWhile testing the BI Publisher to OAS migration in 23C, an issue was discovered where certain data models received a "Failed to Load SQL" error. It was determined this w…
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How to Prevent Current students from seeing Enrollment Status?Summary: Currently we import SDI/SDU and SAFIs into SFP after a first round of admissions decisions in order to start packaging and creating FA Offer Letters. The issue …