Global Disbursement Rules

The disbursement authorization process uses global disbursement rules that are defined by career and apply to all financial aid item types. Use global disbursement rules to set up requirements that all students in the selected career must meet for authorization. Several different elements can be selected in the global disbursement rules, such as service impacts, tracking groups, and academic progress information. For example, you might set up a specific tracking group for students in a certain career. If a student does not meet the items in the tracking group, then the global disbursement rules are not satisfied and the student's aid is not authorized for disbursement.

The disbursement authorization process considers global disbursement rules, defined by career, before it considers item type disbursement rules. In addition, the authorization process verifies whether awards have been accepted and sufficient fiscal funds are available for the disbursement.