Determining PD Effective Date: Change from 22/23 to 23/24
Good morning, happy Wednesday!
My wonderful colleagues Kathryn Macmillan and Christine Micallef noticed a pretty big change in determining the effective date for a disability status!
In the 2022/23 manual (last year):
"If the permanent disability status has been updated to reflect the study period end date plus 1 day, and the student reinsaes, and the reinstament creates a continuous study period:
If the student meets the extended supporting documentation deadline for the continuous study period, update the effective date of the permanent disablity to the START OF THE NEW BLOCK OF STUDIES (i.e. RST BLOCK)"
In the 2023/24 manual (this year), peep this change:
"If the permanent disability status has been updated to reflect the study period end date plus 1 day, and the student reinsaes, and the reinstament creates a continuous study period:
If the student meets the extended supporting documentation deadline for the continuous study period, update the effective date of the permanent disablity to the START OF THE BASE ACCOUNT
Otherwise, update the effective date of the permanent disabilty to the new study period end date plus 1
Flagging for you all!!!!!!!!! ALL CREDIT TO KATE AND CHRISTINE THOUGH. <3
maybe we should just start a thread: The Daily with Bianca and Jeremy 😂
the above (how it was in 22-23) was actually something that was slid into the 22-23 manual WITHOUT being included in the summary of changes. Upon discovery, OASFAA brought it forward to MCU to express our concerns with this, as it didn't make sense. This is why in the 23-24 change summary it reflects this:
Determining PD Effective Date
Per OASFAA request, returned the note/policy for the Determining PD Effective Date section to the 2021-22 content.
We asked that it be put back to how it was because the student gets PD consideration (AP, et al) as of SPS of the base and not just the RST account. MCU said using the SPS of the RST was 'cleaner', we said there are admin issues with doing it this way.
yes, they actually listened :)