Understanding Pell Payment Processing
This section discusses:
Pell payment processing.
Pell processing action codes.
The Pell payment process begins with the submission of an origination or origination and disbursement record for payment. You use origination data to verify a student's eligibility, identify possible conflicts with other institutions, and initiate disbursement record processing. After the origination record is received and processed, you can import an acknowledgment and response into the Campus Solutions system. The response contains the status, such as accepted, accepted with corrections, duplicate, or rejected.
Use the disbursement record to report a disbursement or expected disbursement for each student. After origination is accepted, you can process a disbursement record. If you send both records simultaneously, the system processes originations before disbursement.
This table lists Pell processing action codes:
Process Type |
Pell Processing Status |
Pell Transaction Status |
Pell Origination Status |
Pell Origination Action |
Pell Disbursement Status |
Action Code |
Disbursement Detail |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
After award not originated |
Pending |
NA |
NA |
NA |
NA |
Blank |
NA |
Origination |
Selected |
Ready |
Originated |
Originated |
Originated |
Blank |
Originated |
Origination without Originate Offered Awards option checked. |
Pending |
NA |
NA |
NA |
NA |
Blank |
NA |
Outbound origination |
Reported |
Transmitted |
Transmitted |
Origination transmitted |
Originated |
Blank |
Originated |
Inbound origination with action code of A. |
Reported |
Ready |
Accepted |
Origination acknowledgment received. |
Originated |
Blank |
Originated |
Inbound origination with action code of C. |
Reported |
Ready |
Corrected |
Origination acknowledgment with corrections. |
Originated |
Blank |
Originated |
Inbound origination with action code of C and Pell setup Option is Hold Corrections. |
Reported |
On Hold |
Corrected |
Origination acknowledgment with corrections. |
Originated |
Blank |
Originated |
Inbound origination with action code of E. |
Reported |
On Hold |
Rejected |
Origination acknowledgment rejected. |
Originated |
Blank |
Originated |
Outbound disbursement |
Reported |
Transmitted |
Accepted |
Origination acknowledgment received. |
Trans. |
Blank |
Disbursement transmitted |
Inbound disbursement with action code of A. |
Reported |
Ready |
Dep. on origination status. |
Dep. on origination status. |
Disbursed |
Accepted |
Disbursement acknowledgment |
Inbound disbursement with action code of C. |
Reported |
Ready |
Dep. on origination status. |
Dep. on origination status. |
Disbursed |
Corrected |
Disb. Acc with Corrections |
Inbound disbursement with action code of C and Pell setup option is Hold Corrections. |
Reported |
On Hold |
Dep. on origination status. |
Dep. on origination status. |
Disbursed |
Corrected |
Disb. Acc with Corrections |
Inbound disbursement with action code of E. |
Reported |
On Hold |
Dep. on origination status. |
Dep. on origination status. |
Rejected |
Rejected |
Disbursement rejected |
Note: A corrected status shows a new row indicating that the corrected row was replaced. A rejected disbursement record enables the Resend button which resets the Pell disbursement status to Originated.