Validate Entire Package Rule

Use this rule to validate all awards contained in the package. This rule is useful when you must ensure continual eligibility and an award amount in the student's package. You can also use this rule when a student receives an external award and you must confirm that the outside scholarship has not created an overaward condition.

If you use this rule, also using an Increase or Decrease rule with need thresholds handles the case in which using this rule results in either an unmet need or an overaward condition.

To reevaluate your students for continued Pell Grant eligibility due to enrollment changes, you must insert a Validate Item Type Rule for your Pell item type. To accomplish this, you must specify two repackaging rules:

• Validate item type = Pell item type

• Validate entire package

This rule processes awards from the lowest sequenced award to the highest sequenced award, and it does not reduce locked awards. It protects external awards and disbursement-protected awards from changes.

Optionally, select the Reduce/Cancel disbursed amount parameter if you want to reduce or cancel awards below their disbursed amounts. This attribute overrides the Disbursement Protection attribute established on the FA Item Type 2 page.