Processing Sequential Award Periods

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The following examples are based on Pell Grant awarding functionality for the 2009 and prior aid years.

You can use any of the award entry pages to process the student for discrete award periods. For example, at a semester-based institution with a trailing summer term, you award a student a 2,700 USD Pell Grant for the AAP. The disbursement plan is for both semesters in the AAP, and the split code—set up as a custom split—calls for a 1,350.00 USD disbursement in the fall semester and a 1,350.00 USD disbursement in the spring semester. The following screen shot displays this award on the Student Aid Package page:

This example illustrates the Student Aid Package page displaying the student's award for the AAP (Based on Pell Grant awarding functionality for the 2009 and prior aid years.).

This example illustrates the Award Disbursement Detail page (Based on Pell Grant awarding functionality for the 2009 and prior aid years.).

The student then decides to attend the trailing summer term, and you award the student a 1,000.00 USD Honors Scholarship for the NSAP. Before you manually enter this award, you must select Non Std − Non-Standard as the award period because you want to process the student for the NSAP and leave the existing Pell Grant award for the AAP untouched. When you select Non Std − Non-Standard, Packaging determines that the Pell Grant award is designated for the AAP and does not match the selected award period value, so it treats it as a passive award and makes the row unavailable. Now you cannot change the Pell Grant award, and Packaging does not reevaluate it when you validate the new award.

Insert a new row and add the 1,000.00 USD Honors Scholarship with a disbursement plan/split code pattern that distributes the award in the trailing summer term. When you validate this award, Packaging evaluates only this award and processes the Pell Grant award as a passive award.

This example illustrates the Student Aid Package page with new Honors Scholarship award and Federal Pell Grant (Based on Pell Grant awarding functionality for the 2009 and prior aid years.).

This example illustrates the Award Disbursement Detail page (Based on Pell Grant awarding functionality for the 2009 and prior aid years.).

If you want to reevaluate the student's awards for both award periods, you can selected Both as the award period after you have posted the Honors Scholarship. Both the Pell Grant and the Honors Scholarship are then available for changes, and Packaging treats both awards as active awards and reevaluates them based on need and eligibility criteria/rules. These rows remain available and open.

This example illustrates the Student Aid Package page (Based on Pell Grant awarding functionality for the 2009 and prior aid years.).