ISIR Comment Code and Correction Updates for 2024-25 and 2025-26

On December 27th, the Department of Education released an update to Volumes 4B and 7 of the FAFSA Specification Guides that impact Student Financial Aid. These updates were needed to ensure Oracle Student Financial Aid is communicating ISIR corrections with the correct valid content and updated 4 comment codes.  

  • Updated Valid Content for the 2025-2026 Award Year ISIR Correction Record
    • New Valid Content for “Filed non-U.S. tax return” field 237 of the Correction Record
      • 1 = Filed or will file a tax return with Puerto Rico or another U.S. territory
      • 2 = Filed or will file a foreign tax return
      • 3 = Did not and will not file a foreign tax return - earned income in a foreign country or employee of an international organization that did not require tax filing
      • 4 = Did not and will not file a U.S. tax return - earned U.S. income below the tax filing threshold
      • 5 = Did not and will not file a U.S. tax return - reasons other than low income
      • 6 = Did not and will not file any tax return - no earned income
      • Blank
  • Comment Codes for both the 2024-2025 and 2025-2026 Award Years
    • 113
      • Updated to Resolution Required, allowing you to configure Auto Code Clearing Logic within ISIR_C_CODES.csv
    • 292, 293 and 294
      • These codes are no longer used by the Department of Education.

This feature allows the product to remain in sync with the Department of Education's December 27th ISIR updates.

Steps to Enable

Use the Opt In UI to enable this feature. For instructions, refer to the Optional Uptake of New Features section of this document.

Offering: Student Financial Aid

  • Download Baseline Configuration Release Extract provided on Cloud Customer Connect
  • Review the updates to baseline configuration related to this feature
  • Make applicable updates to ISIR configuration workbooks 
  • Upload through the configuration loader in Oracle Student Financial Aid

Tips And Considerations

  • Please review our baseline configuration updates for additional enhancements for the new ISIR updates.
    • Updates were made to the ISIR_C_CODES workbook for both 2024-2025 and 2025-2026 Award Years
      • Comment Code 113 was updated to include Auto Code Clearing Logic and text to Additional Notification Message
      • Auto Code Clearing Logic was set to true for Comment Codes 293 and 294 to ensure they are cleared if an ISIR is received with these codes.
  • See Support of the Department of Education’s December 27th ISIR updates posted on Cloud Customer Connect on how to handle existing students
    • Query was provided to find any ISIRs that contain a C-Code of 113, 293 and/or 294.
    • ISIRs with a 113 comment code may need to manual action as it will now require a resolution, while ISIRs with a 293 or 294 may need to be cleared manually as they no longer require any resolution.

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