On July 19, 2023, the Department of Education posted COD-23-05, which discusses the plan to implement additional Common Origination and Disbursement (COD) System functionality on July 30. Read the whole announcement below.
POSTED DATE: July 19, 2023
AUTHOR: Federal Student Aid
ELECTRONIC ANNOUNCEMENT ID: COD-23-05
SUBJECT: Additional COD System Implementation for 2023–24 Award Year (July 2023)
On July 30, 2023, we plan to implement additional Common Origination and Disbursement (COD) System functionality that supports the Campus-Based programs and the processing of Federal Pell Grant (Pell Grant), Iraq and Afghanistan Service Grant, Teacher Education Assistance for College and Higher Education (TEACH) Grant, and William D. Ford Federal Direct Loan (Direct Loan) awards for the 2023–24 award year.
We appreciate your patience and understanding as we complete this important activity.
COD System Outage Information
To implement the COD System functionality, we will suspend COD batch processing from midnight to 11 a.m. Eastern time (ET) on Sunday, July 30, 2023. Records submitted via the Student Aid Internet Gateway (SAIG) during the outage period will be held and processed after 11 a.m. ET on Sunday, July 30, 2023.
In addition, during the outage, users will not be able to
- submit or retrieve data from the COD website.
- access the COD Reports area of the COD website.
Additional COD System Implementation Information (July 2023)
With this release, we will implement a few key system changes described below.
- Addition of 2024–25 Award Year Cycle for Campus-Based Programs – We will add the 2024–25 processing cycle to the COD System. All Campus-Based Program forms and instructions and Campus-Based processes will be updated in the COD System for the 2024–25 application year (and 2022–23 reporting year) and will become available to view and edit beginning on Aug. 1, 2023. For a summary of changes being made to the Fiscal Operations Report and Application to Participate (FISAP), refer to the Electronic Announcement posted June 9, 2023.
- Campus-Based XML Common Record Schema Processing – The COD System will be able to accept records using the Campus-Based XML schema version 1.0a. For more information about the schema itself, refer to the Campus-Based XML schema posting and Volume 4 of the COD Technical Reference. Operational guidance about using the Campus-Based XML schema to report Federal Work-Study earnings will be provided in a forthcoming announcement.
- Pell Grant Lifetime Eligibility Used (LEU) Restoration for Discharge – We will update the COD System to allow for the restoration of Pell Grant eligibility specifically for students who received an eligible loan discharge. More information about this change will be provided in a forthcoming announcement.
Contact Information
If you have questions about this announcement, contact the FSA Partner and School Relations Center at 1-800-848-0978. You may also email CODSupport@ed.gov
SOURCE: (COD-23-05) Additional COD System Implementation for 2023–24 Award Year (July 2023)