Deprecating IASG for 24/25 and Future Award Years

With the FAFSA Simplification Act, the Iraq and Service Grant (IASG) has been removed as a Title IV Fund for the 24/25 award year and forward

  • The system will no longer auto-package IASG as a Title IV Fund from the 24/25 award year and forward
    • If IASG is auto-packaged prior to the release, a repackage will remove any IASG funds that were auto-packaged and cancel the associated disbursements
  • UI Impacts:
    • The UI dropdown for selecting IASG as a Title IV fund when add/editing a fund will continue to have IASG viewable 
      • The system will display a warning if a user attempts to manually package IASG as a Title IV fund from the 24/25 award year and forward
      • Users will be allowed to set an IASG value of $0 if manually packaged prior to release
        • The system will have a back-end validation that prevents a user from setting the fund to a value other than $0
    • IASG will be removed from the Fund Eligibility UI for 24/25 and forward
  • R2T4 Impacts:
    • IASG will no longer be displayed or included as part of the R2T4, PWD or Grant Overpayment calculations when the payment period is within the 24/25 award year and forward
    • If the IASG fund is packaged for 24/25 (prior to the release) and included in the R2T4 calculation, an application event error will be logged to notify a user why the R2T4 calculation failed
  • College Financing Plan Impacts:
    • The College Financing Plan will no longer consider IASG and IASG has been removed from College Financing Plan configuration (the FUND_CFP.csv)

Steps to Enable

You don't need to do anything to enable this feature.

Tips And Considerations

  • If IASG is auto-packaged for 24/25 prior to the release, a repackage will remove any IASG funds that were auto-packaged causing the disbursements to be canceled
  • If IASG is manually packaged for 24/25 prior to the 24A release, a user can use the add/edit functionality to set the any IASG funds to $0
  • The system will continue to auto-package or allow a user to manually package IASG as Title IV fund for award years 23/24 and prior (based on Title IV fund config)
  • The system will output a validation error if the IASG Title IV fund code is loaded into 24/25 away year config and forward
    • Impacted Workbooks where the IASG fund code has been removed include: 
      • FUND_CFP.csv
      • FAS_FUND_CONFIG.csv
    • If a user attempts to include IASG as a Title IV fund for the the 24/25 award year and forward, a Validation Error Message will read, "In an attempt to import the CSV file, an error occurred when loading the new configuration. The IASG Title IV fund is no longer available for award year 2024-2025 and forward. It is recommended that you update and reload the changed CSV file.
  • To support requesting documentation for students that are self identifying for IASG/CFH eligibility for PELL, you can make the following configuration updates.
    • Configure a lifetime document to allow the student to certify that the student is still eligible under the new criteria in DOCUMENTS.csv
      • If you would like to use metadata on the documentation to drive correction, you will need to configure that within DOCMETADATA.csv
      • Within the ISIR_DISCREP.csv, configure ISIR discrepancy logic for FPS_IASGINDICATOR and FPS_CHILDRENOFFALLENHEROESINDICATOR
        • For each of the 2 rows add the following
        • Discrepancy_Evaluation_Script:
          • If STUDENT_PARENTKILLEDINTHELINEOFDUTYis 1 (meaning the student self identified), check to see if either FPS_IASGINDICATOR or FPS_CHILDRENOFFALLENHEROESINDICATOR contains code 1 or 2 showing that they are already eligible. If neither of the indicators are already eligible, request that the student send applicable documenation by setting that there is a discrepancy triggering the addtional doc request script. If the document already exists, you can either use the metadata in the document to set the correct values triggering a correction, or require that a user manually review to make the correction.
        • Additional_Doc_Req_Script:
          • Add the document request for the new student document configured

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