Federal Student Aid has updated the draft 2024–25 FAFSA Specifications Guide. The volumes contained in this guide contain FAFSA Processing System (FPS) technical and processing information for the 2024–25 award year.
What changed?
Volume 2 – FPS Schedule and Getting Help, Volume 3 – Electronic Data Exchange and FAFSA Processing, and Volume 6 – ISIR Guide; these are now final. FSA has also updated Volume 5 – Edits and Rejects that was initially published as final on Dec. 7, 2023; the changes made since Dec. 7th are noted in the volume’s Change History Table.
The following volumes remain unchanged:
- Introduction
- Volume 1 – Summary of Changes
- Volume 4 – Record Layouts and Processing Codes
- Volume 7 – Comment Codes
- Volume 8 – Agency Matches
- Volume 9 – Testing and Web Demo System
The guide will continue to be updated as we get closer to the launch of the 2024-25 FAFSA. FSA is beginning to publish final versions of the volumes.
Look for the word—“Draft” or “Final”—at the beginning of each volume description for that volume’s status.
SOURCE: (APP-23-21) Draft 2024–25 FAFSA Specifications Guide (December 2023 Update #2) Now Available