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Release Notes: Item 2009-02

2021-2022 Regulatory Release (Source Code Changes)

This is the second of two release items which comprise the 2021-22 Regulatory release. This item contains code modifications for 2021-22 Federal processing: ADD Load processing, FM calculations, federal corrections and COD reporting. Item 2009-01 contains the 2021-22 file changes.

Modifications to address any further federal announcements will be issued as needed. 2021-22 packaging is scheduled for release when the Pell tables are available, typically by mid-January. FISAP revisions will be released when final specifications become available, usually the following July.

New fields on the ISIR record (WF-ISIR-2122) include:

Student and Parent IRS Answered Schedule 1 Flags, which describe whether or not IRS Schedule 1 was answered for a student or parent who used the IRS retrieval functionality. This is displayed on the Detail link for IRS Request Information on the Verification screen.

There are no FEDERAL or NSLDS changes and no correction Field Numbers have changed. The Dictionary entries in release item 2009-01 for correctable federal fields contain the correction numbers.

There are no Verification changes.

Additionally, while we traditionally do not deliver non-FAFSA changes with the annual Regulatory release, we have delivered a small modification to the loan processing, in anticipation of required 2022 Loan disbursement requirements for Annual Student Loan Acknowledgement requirements (previously called the 'Informed Borrowing Confirmation' process). The WF-LOANAPP file has had the following modifications:

New fields in the WF-LOANAPP file (Additional field details in release notes for 2009-01):

The new loan fields are display only and are loaded from the DL Award Response block during the Direct Lending Import process OR from the the System Generated Response, message class file (CRIByyOP) for Informed Borrower. The System Generated Response has a new doctype of "IB"

Modifications have been delivered to display them on two windows. For PLUS loans, the Informed Borrower complete flag and date fields appear on the previously existing Credit Status window. For Non-PLUS loans, there is a new pop-up window for the two new fields: Informed.

A new student event will also be posted whenever a student DL record is imported with the Informed Borrower Complete flag = true

Although we delivered the code for the Informed Borrower ID, it appears that the ID will not be used in Financier at this time.

The logic to stop disbursement if the actual acknowledgement was not received as 'true' will be delivered under a separate release following the 2021-2022 Regulation Release.

Implementation Notes

The attached zip file contains:

To implement the 2021-22 Regulatory release, complete the following steps:

  1. Unload the SYSOBJH file in the attached zip file into a temporary library.

  2. SYSMAIN the new and updated modules from your temporary library into your development library. When copying the updated versions of source modules, be sure to review your current 2020-21 modules and apply any institutional modifications to the appropriate 2021-22 version.

    The new modules are the year-specific components named W*22*. The updated modules are:
  3. Roll your 2020-21 institutional calculations forward to 2021-22 and make any modifications necessary due to institutional requirements.

  4. Execute a CATALL against your development library to pick up all data area changes.

  5. On the FAO Table maintenance screen (under the System menu), when all FAO-specific calculations are in place, for each valid FAO at your institution, modify the High Year field (WW-TABLES.WW-HI-YEAR) to contain the new aid year.

  6. The JCL in the ADD Import job (WFADDIMJ) for 2021-22 will remain the same as last year, with ISIR record length of 4300 (Work File 1).

  7. Print the changed pages and User Guide update instructions in the zip file.

  8. Perform institutional testing. When testing is complete, you may move the released modules to your test and production environments.