Ability to Benefit State Code Updates for 2025-26

Updates were made to the Origination File Update Task to account for the new Ability to Benefit State Codes values that were added by the Department of Education on December 31, 2024 within the 2025–2026 COD Technical Reference. 

Within the Origination File Update Task, when a user chooses the Student Eligibility Code: "03 = State Process", they are now able to select the two new possible Ability to Benefit State Codes values for 25/26 award year and forward:

  • IA for Iowa
  • CA for California

When origination and disbursing with COD, the new values are sent in the outbound COD files for the Ability to Benefit State Codes field. 

This feature allows you to select IA or CA for the state for the Ability to Benefit State Code according to regulations provided by the Department of Education on December 31, 2024.

Steps to Enable

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

Tips And Considerations

  • IA or CA values will only be present via the dropdown if the Student Eligibility Code selected by a user is equal to "03 = State Process" for the 25/26 award year. 

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