August 17, 2026
We have moved into a peak processing period for the 2026–27 award year. To assist schools with planning and processing, we remind you of the following:
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Origination and disbursement responses are processed throughout the day and are often sent to schools within hours. During this peak period, batch processing may take longer. In the unlikely event batch processing takes longer than 24 hours, the FSA Partner and School Relations Center will contact affected schools on the next business day.
Note: Mondays and Tuesdays are the heaviest processing days. If your school has system flexibility in scheduling batch submissions, you may want to consider sending data later in the week.
All system-generated responses (see the full list in Volume 2, Section 2 of the COD Technical Reference) are processed once a day at 2:30 a.m. Eastern time (ET) for activity that occurred the preceding day. As with batches, in the unlikely event system-generated response processing takes longer than 24 hours, the FSA Partner and School Relations Center will contact affected schools on the next business.