2024-2025 Award Year Deadline Dates for Reports and Other Records Associated With the Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA), the Federal Supplemental Educational Opportunity Grant Program (FSEOG) Program, the Federal Work-Study (FWS) Program, the Federal Pell Grant (Pell Grant) Program, the William D. Ford Federal Direct Loan (Direct Loan) Program, and the Teacher Education Assistance for College and Higher Education (TEACH) Grant Program

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Table A—2024-2025 Award Year Deadline Dates by Which a Student Must Submit the FAFSA, by Which the Institution Must Receive the Student's Institutional Student Information Record (ISIR) or FAFSA Submission Summary, and by Which the Institution Must Submit Verification Outcomes for Certain Students.

Table A provides information and deadline dates for receipt of the FAFSA, corrections to and signatures for the FAFSA, ISIRs, and FAFSA Submission Summary, and verification documents.

The deadline date for the receipt of a FAFSA by the Department's FAFSA Processing System (FPS) is June 30, 2025, regardless of the method that the applicant uses to submit the FAFSA. The deadline date for the receipt of corrections, notices of change of address or institution, or requests for a duplicate FAFSA Submission Summary is September 13, 2025.

For all title IV, HEA programs, an ISIR or FAFSA Submission Summary for the student must be received by the institution no later than the student's last date of enrollment for the 2024-2025 award year or September 20, 2025, whichever is earlier. Note that a FAFSA must be submitted and an ISIR or FAFSA Submission Summary received for the dependent student for whom a parent is applying for a Direct PLUS Loan.

Except for students selected for Verification Tracking Groups V4 and V5, verification documents must be received by the institution no later than 120 days after the student's last date of enrollment for the 2024-2025 award year or September 20, 2025, whichever is earlier. For students selected for Verification Tracking Groups V4 and V5, institutions must submit identity verification results no later than 60 days following the institution's first request to the student to submit the documentation, or when the FAFSA Partner Portal (FPP) Verification of Identity function is made available for the 2024-2025 Award Year, whichever is later.

For all title IV, HEA programs except for (1) Direct PLUS Loans that will be made to parent borrowers, and (2) Direct Unsubsidized Loans that will be made to dependent students who have been determined by the institution, pursuant to section 479A(a) of the HEA, to be eligible for such a loan without providing parental information on the FAFSA, the ISIR or FAFSA Submission Summary must have an official Student Aid Index (SAI) and the ISIR or FAFSA Submission Summary must be received by the institution no later than the earlier of the student's last date of enrollment for the 2024-2025 award year or September 20, 2025. For the two exceptions mentioned above, the ISIR or FAFSA Submission Summary must be received by the institution by the same dates noted in this paragraph but the ISIR or FAFSA Submission Summary is not required to have an official SAI.

For a student who is requesting aid through the Pell Grant, FSEOG, or FWS programs or for a student requesting Direct Subsidized Loans, who does not meet the conditions for a late disbursement under 34 CFR 668.164(j), a valid ISIR or valid FAFSA Submission Summary must be received by the institution by the student's last date of enrollment for the 2024-2025 award year or September 20, 2025, whichever is earlier. Additionally, for the 2024-2025 Award Year, the Department is providing additional flexibilities for students who applied via the paper FAFSA form and were enrolled only for the 2024 summer term. An institution that receives an ISIR for a student who was enrolled for the summer term and is no longer enrolled, and who, if not for the delay of the processing of paper FAFSA forms, would have otherwise been eligible to receive title IV program funds, may still award and disburse the funds, subject to all other late disbursement requirements. For this exception to apply, the ISIR or FAFSA Submission Summary must have an Application Receipt Date on or before the student's last date of enrollment for the summer term but the ISIR or FAFSA Submission Summary is not required to have an official SAI.

In accordance with 34 CFR 668.164(j)(4)(i), an institution may not make a late disbursement of title IV, HEA program funds later than 180 days after the date of the institution's determination that the student was no longer enrolled. Table A provides that, to make a late disbursement of title IV, HEA program funds, an institution must receive a valid ISIR or valid FAFSA Submission Summary no later than 180 days after its determination that the student was no longer enrolled, but not later than September 20, 2025.

Table B—2024-2025 Award Year Deadline Dates By Which an Institution Must Submit Disbursement Information For the Pell Grant, Direct Loan, and TEACH Grant Programs.

For the Pell Grant, Direct Loan, and TEACH Grant programs, Table B provides the earliest disbursement date, the earliest dates for institutions to submit disbursement records to the Department's Common Origination and Disbursement (COD) System, and deadline dates by which institutions must submit disbursement and origination records.

For the 2024-25 Award Year, an institution must submit Pell Grant, Direct Loan, and TEACH Grant disbursement records to COD, no later than November 30, 2024 or 15 days after making the disbursement or becoming aware of the need to adjust a previously reported disbursement, whichever is later. In accordance with 34 CFR 668.164(a), title IV, HEA program funds are disbursed on the date that the institution: (a) credits those funds to a student's account in the institution's general ledger or any subledger of the general ledger; or (b) pays those funds to a student directly. Title IV, HEA program funds are disbursed even if an institution uses its own funds in advance of receiving program funds from the Department.

An institution's failure to submit disbursement records within the required timeframe may result in the Department rejecting all or part of the reported disbursement. Such failure may also result in an audit or program review finding or the initiation of an adverse action, such as a fine or other penalty for such failure, in accordance with subpart G of the General Provisions regulations in 34 CFR part 668.

Deadline Dates for Enrollment Reporting by Institutions.

In accordance with 34 CFR 674.19(f), 682.610(c), 685.309(b), and 690.83(b)(2), upon receipt of an enrollment report from the Secretary, institutions must update all information included in the report and return the report to the Secretary in a manner and format prescribed by the Secretary and within the timeframe prescribed by the Secretary. Consistent with the National Student Loan Data System (NSLDS) Enrollment Reporting Guide, the Secretary has determined that institutions must report at least every two months. Institutions may find the NSLDS Enrollment Reporting Guide in the “Knowledge Center” via Federal Student Aid's (FSA) Partner Connect website at: https://fsapartners.ed.gov/knowledge-center.

Other Sources for Detailed Information.

We publish a detailed discussion of the FAFSA application process in the Application and Verification Guide volume of the 2024-2025 Federal Student Aid Handbook and in Volume 6 of the 2024-2025 FAFSA Specifications Guide.

Information on the institutional reporting requirements for the Pell Grant, Direct Loan, Federal Work-Study, and TEACH Grant programs is included in the 2024-2025 Common Origination and Disbursement (COD) Technical Reference. Also, see the NSLDS Enrollment Reporting Guide.

You may access these publications by visiting the “Knowledge Center” via FSA's Partner Connect website at: https://fsapartners.ed.gov/knowledge-center.

Additionally, the 2024-2025 award year reporting deadline dates for the Federal Perkins Loan, FWS, and FSEOG programs were published in the Federal Register on January 23, 2024 (89 FR 4284).

Applicable Regulations: The following regulations apply:

(1) Student Assistance General Provisions, 34 CFR part 668.

(2) Federal Pell Grant Program, 34 CFR part 690.

(3) William D. Ford Direct Loan Program, 34 CFR part 685.

(4) Teacher Education Assistance for College and Higher Education Grant Program, 34 CFR part 686.

(5) Federal Work-Study Programs, 34 CFR part 675.

(6) Federal Supplemental Education Opportunity Grant Program, 34 CFR part 676.

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Program Authority: 20 U.S.C. 1070a, 1070b-1070b-4, 1070g, 1070h, 1087a-1087j, 1087aa-1087ii, and 1087-51-1087-58.