Is There a Comment Code Crosswalk For the Changes Effective With 2024-25?
Award Year: 2024-25 KA-36661 Helpfulness Rating 6,781 page viewsThis guidance is specific to the 2024-25 award year and later.
Yes. See the NASFAA 2024-25 to 2023-24 Comment Codes Crosswalk along with Comment Codes Crosswalk Instructions, available in the FAFSA Simplification Web Center on the NASFAA website. It has been updated to include December 2023 changes to the FAFSA Specifications Guide Volume 7 – Comment Codes.
In August 2023, the U.S. Department of Education (ED) released its draft FAFSA Specifications Guide Volume 7 – Comment Codes which included significant renumbering of Institutional Student Information Record (ISIR) comment codes from the previous year. In response to member concerns about needing to update financial aid management systems (FAMS) and communications, and having learned ED has no plans to create a crosswalk, NASFAA has developed this crosswalk to help financial aid administrators see what has changed from 2023-24 to 2024-25.
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