2024-25 ISIR Correction Updates

The 2024-25 ISIR correction process has been enhanced to align with the updated 2024-2025 FAFSA Specification Guides, Volumes 3, 4, 5 and 7, published by the Department of Education in July 2024.  These updates affected the EDE Correction Record Level Error Report Layout as well as what fields can be corrected by the school on a student's behalf.

  • EDE Correction Record Level Error Report Layout Update
    • Field 4 - Student Middle Name changed to a filler field (position 81-95)
    • Field 6 - Student Suffix changed to a filler field (position 131-140)
  • Correctable ISIR fields
    • The following fields can no longer be corrected by the school.  With that, the ISIR Correction UI has been enhanced to no longer allow for manual updates to these fields.
      • Student First Name
      • Student Middle Name
      • Student Last Name
      • Student Suffix
      • Student Date of Birth
      • Student Social Security Number
      • Student Spouse First Name
      • Student Spouse Middle Name
      • Student Spouse Last Name
      • Student Spouse Suffix
      • Student Spouse Date of Birth
      • Student Spouse Social Security Number
      • Parent First Name
      • Parent Middle Name
      • Parent Last Name
      • Parent Suffix
      • Parent Date of Birth
      • Parent Social Security Number
      • Parent Spouse or Partner First Name
      • Parent Spouse or Partner Middle Name
      • Parent Spouse or Partner Last Name
      • Parent Spouse or Partner Suffix
      • Parent Spouse or Partner Date of Birth
      • Parent Spouse or Partner Social Security Number
  • Baseline Configuration update for 24/25 ISIR Corrections
    • Baseline configuration has been updated to send any corrections that are not allowed by the school to a manual review task. 
      • This will allow you to reach out to the student to make the correction with the Department of Education.
    • For the full details of the updates made to baseline configuration, refer to Release Notes posted on Cloud Customer Connect

This feature allows the product to remain in sync with the Department of Education's July 24/25 ISIR updates.

Steps to Enable

  • Configure your environment to include the updated 24/25 configurations within the following workbooks. Please refer to the baseline configuration delivered in the Release Notes posted on Cloud Customer Connect for a reference on what values should be updated.
    • ISIR_DISCREP.csv

Tips And Considerations

  • On July 30, 2024, the Department of Education published an Electronic Announcement deferring 24/25 ISIR batch corrections. We suggest that you continue to keep the 24/25 ISIR award year correction batch files (CORR25IN and CORE25OP) as 'disabled' on the DOE File Management screen of Oracle Student Financial Aid and continue using FAFSA on the web and FAFSA Partner Portal when making any further 24/25 ISIR award year corrections.
  • Please note, that if you enable 24/25 ISIR award year correction batch files (CORR25IN and CORE25OP) and corrections are sent from an institution, these updates may create a potential synchronicity and data integrity risk of overwriting any corrections previously made by a student or institution via the FAFSA Partner Portal. 

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