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 7 – Comment Codes, Volume 8 – Agency Matches, and Volume 9 – Testing and Web Demo System; these are now final. The Introduction and Volume 1 are also now final. The Introduction has not changed since we posted it on Dec. 28, 2022. Volume 1 has not changed since we posted it on Sept. 25, 2023.
The following volumes remain unchanged:
- Volume 2 – FPS Schedule and Getting Help
- Volume 3 – Electronic Data Exchange and FAFSA Processing
- Volume 4 – Record Layouts and Processing Codes
- Volume 5 – Edits and Rejects
- Volume 6 – ISIR Guide
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. As of December 8th, the following volumes are final: Introduction, Volume 1, Volume 5, Volume 7, Volume 8 and Volume 9.
Note: The current 2024-25 ISIR record layout is the final version as of November 27, 2023. While some minor edits to the field values may occur in the future, users should consider the current version “final” and ready for development and testing. If updates to the final file are necessary, the updated file will be posted to the 2024-25 FAFSA Specifications Guide publication page.
SOURCE: (APP-23-20) Draft 2024–25 FAFSA Specifications Guide (December 2023 Update #1) Now Available