NSLDS Enhancements

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NSLDS Enhancements
2006 NCHELP FALL TRAINING CONFERENCE

• Beth Wicks
• Manager, Lender Services
• Pam Eliadis
• Director, NSLDS Group

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Agenda

• NCHELP Overview
• NSLDS Subcommittee Overview
• NSLDS Lender Manifest Overview
• Overview of FSA Conference Focus Groups

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NCHELP Program Operations

• OPS Sub-committees
• Admin
• DACS
• Enrollment Reporting
• Forms
• Operations, Processing and Administration
• NSLDS

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NSLDS Workgroup (NED)

• Chair Dana Purdy
• Small NSLDS Workgroup
• Currently 14 Members
• 1 NCHELP Member
• 10 Guarantors
• 3 Lender/Servicers
• Large NSLDS Workgroup
• 60 Participants on calls
• Listserv

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NSLDS Workgroup (NED)

• Purpose
• Represent entire GA and L/S community on NSLDS
  related topics
• Reporting Issues
• Program Edits
• Regulation and Policy Changes
• Future Enhancements
• Communicate updates and changes to community

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NSLDS Workgroup (NED)

• Communication
• Quarterly Face to Face Meetings with ED
• Pre/Post meeting Conference Calls with large
  group
• Tracking Log and Meeting Minutes
• Various Surveys and Questionnaires
• NCHELP Share Point

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NSLDS Lender Manifest
2006 NCHELP FALL TRAINING CONFERENCE

• Beth Wicks
• Manager of Lender Services

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NSLDS Lender Manifest ?NCHELP developed in 1994
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• Means for lenders lender/servicers to update
  guarantors with NSLDS data
• Loan Status Balance
• Disbursements/Cancellations/ Refund

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Manifest Documents
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• Manifest Layout/Detail Layout
• Common Edits
• Reject File Layout
• File of Unreported Loans Layout

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Lender Manifest
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• Last updated in 2001 for NSLDS new loan status
  codes
• PC based program created maintained by Texas
  Guaranty Agency

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HERA Changes
2006 NCHELP FALL TRAINING CONFERENCE

• Add edits for new loan type GB
• Add MO as new deferment type code

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Reporting GB Loan Type
2006 NCHELP FALL TRAINING CONFERENCE

• Loan Type of PL
• Both Student SSN PLUS Borrower SSN must be
  populated with same value
• Option until 5/1/2007

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Reporting GB Loan Type
2006 NCHELP FALL TRAINING CONFERENCE

• Loan Type of GB
• Student SSN must always be populated
• PLUS Borrower SSN populated with same SSN as
  students OR spaces

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HERA Document Changes
2006 NCHELP FALL TRAINING CONFERENCE

• Edit changes to fields
• PLUS Borrowers SSN
• Date Entered Repayment
• Update tables to include MO and GB

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HERA Document Changes
2006 NCHELP FALL TRAINING CONFERENCE

• Updated documents posted to NCHELP e-Library
  6/1/2006
• Updated PC program available for download
  6/1/2006

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Identified Issues
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• Additional HERA guidance
• Point of reporting
• Lack of synchronization with DPI
• Inconsistencies with CAM

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Identified Issues
2006 NCHELP FALL TRAINING CONFERENCE

• Clarify usage of Lender Manifest information
• Additional fields for matching or other
  information
• Clarify information in Common Manual

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Current Status
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• Side by side compare with DPI nearly complete
• Proposed changes to Common Manual
• Distribution of survey to identify how Lender
  Manifest fields are used

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Lender Manifest Future Objectives
2006 NCHELP FALL TRAINING CONFERENCE

• Updated documents to synchronize with DPI out
  for comment January, 2007
• Best Practices Documentation October, 2007

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Lender Manifest Future Objectives
2006 NCHELP FALL TRAINING CONFERENCE

• Identify changes and/or additional information
  to incorporate 07/08 process year
• Implementation 08/09 process year

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FSA NSLDS Focus Groups
2006 NCHELP FALL TRAINING CONFERENCE

• Pam Eliadis
• Director of NSLDS

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FSA Focus Groups

• Federal Student Aid Conferences
• Orlando 10/29/06
• Las Vegas 11/27/06
• FFEL Data Flows
• High Level Improvements
• Streamline

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FSA Focus Groups

• Two Goals
• Participants review the current FSA improvement
  ideas and provide feedback during the meeting
• Provide Federal Student Aid with ideas for
  improving current FFEL reporting processes

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FSA Focus Groups

• Data Integrity preserving the reliability and
  condition of FFEL data so that it is consistently
  defined and maintained during any FFEL process,
  such as loan sales, transfers, assignments, and
  reportingData Process Flows getting the right
  data, to the right place, at the right timeData
  Collection capturing the data needed to meet
  business and reporting requirements eliminating
  unnecessary and duplicative data collection
  requirements

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FSA Focus Groups

• Results from Orlando
• Plan for Las Vegas
• Feedback from you

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2006 NCHELP FALL TRAINING CONFERENCE
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