Additional COD System Implementation for 2020–21 Award Year

Author
Federal Student Aid
Subject
Additional COD System Implementation for 2020–21 Award Year

During the period June 26–28, 2020, 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 2020–21 Award Year.

In this announcement, we provide the following important information related to the implementation:

  • COD System Outage Information

  • Additional 2020–21 COD System Implementation Information

  • Contact Information

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 beginning at 11 p.m. Eastern time (ET) on Friday, June 26, 2020. Records submitted after this time will be held and processed after 11 a.m. ET on Sunday, June 28, 2020.

Note: All actual disbursements with a disbursement date from June 26, 2020 through June 28, 2020 must be received, and subsequently accepted, by the COD System no later than 9 a.m. ET on Friday, June 26, 2020, in order to generate the appropriate funding level increase prior to the outage. Disbursements submitted by the deadline but not subsequently accepted or disbursements submitted after the deadline will be processed and funded after the outage.

In addition, between 11 p.m. ET on Friday, June 26, 2020 and 11 a.m. ET on Sunday, June 28, 2020—

  • Users will not be able to submit or retrieve data via the COD website.

  • Users will not be able to access the COD Reports area of the COD website.

Additional 2020–21 COD System Implementation Information

For this release, there is limited functionality that impacts schools and software provider systems. As of June 29, 2020, we will update the COD System to calculate and edit awards and disbursements using the sequester-required Direct Loan fees and sequester-required percentage reduction to awards in the Iraq and Afghanistan Service Grant and TEACH Grant programs where the first disbursement is on or after October 1, 2020. For more information about the sequester-required changes to the Title IV federal student aid programs, refer to a June 23, 2020 Electronic Announcement.

Contact Information

If you have questions about this announcement, contact the COD School Relations Center at 1-800-848-0978. You may also email CODSupport@ed.gov.