Financial Aid – 1213 Verification Priority Groups
Presenter: John Nickless, Senior Banner Financial Aid
Consultant
BANNER VERIFICATION
DOCUMENTATION FUNCTIONALITY
 Add
appropriate documents to appropriate
students
 Don’t miss requesting required information
 Don’t ask for unnecessary information
VERIFICATION ITEMS FOR 2011-2012
34 CFR 668.56
 1. Household size
 2. Number in college
 3. Adjusted gross income (AGI) 4. U.S. taxes paid
5. Certain types of untaxed income and benefits:
 ➔ Child support
 ➔ IRA/Keogh deductions
 ➔ Interest on tax-free bonds
 6. All other untaxed income included on the U.S.
income tax return, excluding information on the
schedules
VERIFICATION ITEMS FOR 2012–2013
668.56
See the July 13, 2011, Federal Register
 For all applicants:
 Household size
 Number in college
 Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP, formerly food stamps)
 Child support paid
 For non-tax filers:
 Income earned from work
 For tax filers:
 Adjusted gross income (AGI)
 U.S. income tax paid
 Education credits
 Untaxed IRA distributions
 Untaxed pensions
 IRA deductions
 Tax-exempt interest
VERIFICATION ITEMS FOR 2013–2014
668.56
See the July 12, 2012, Federal Register
 Adjusted gross income (AGI)
 U.S. income tax paid
 Education credits
 Untaxed IRA distributions
 Untaxed pensions
 IRA deductions and payments
 Tax-exempt interest
 Income earned from work
 Household size
 Number in college
 Supplemental Nutrition AssistanceProgram (SNAP, formerly food stamps)
 Child support paid
 High school completion status
 Identity/statement of educational purpose
2013-2014 VERIFICATION PRIORITY
GROUPS
5

Priority Groups
Not all items are applicable or appropriate for every
student
STANDARD VERIFICATION GROUP.
TRACKING FLAG V1
Students in this group must verify the following if they are tax filers:
 adjusted gross income
 U.S. income tax paid
 untaxed portions of IRA distributions
 untaxed portions of pensions
 IRA deductions and payments
 tax-exempt interest income
 education credits
 household size
 number in college
 Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits
 child support paid
Students who are not tax filers must verify the following:
 income earned from work
 household size
 number in college
 SNAP benefits
 child support paid
SNAP VERIFICATION GROUP
TRACKING FLAG V2
Students in this group must verify the receipt of
SNAP benefits.
CHILD SUPPORT PAID VERIFICATION
GROUP. TRACKING FLAG V3
Students must verify child support paid by them
or their spouse, their parents, or both
CUSTOM VERIFICATION GROUP.
TRACKING FLAG V4
Students must verify high school completion
status and identity/statement of educational
purpose in addition to receipt of SNAP benefits
and payment of child support
AGGREGATE VERIFICATION GROUP
TRACKING FLAG V5
Students must verify high school completion
status and identity/statement of educational
purpose in addition to the items in the Standard
Verification Group
TRACKING GROUPS VS. BATCH POSTING
VS. BLEND
Documents posted to RRAAREQ two ways:
 RRRGREQ

Posts documents based on Tracking Group
assignment
 RORPOST

Posts documents based on sub-group selection
(Population Selection)
BENEFITS OF RRRGREQ
 Documents
are posted to multiple groups based
on a single pop sel
 Documents are added or removed from
RRAAREQ if student moves from one Tracking
Group to another
DRAWBACKS OF RRRGREQ
 Creation
of an exponential number of Tracking
Groups (V1-V5, Independent-Dependent, IRS
matching status, etc.)
BENEFITS OF RORPOST
 Selection
of students by document
 Fewer Tracking Groups
DRAWBACK OF RORPOST
 Documents
will not “un-post” if student
changes Tracking Group
 Additional GLBDATA runs for each dataload
MAXIMIZE THE BENEFITS, MINIMIZE THE
DRAWBACKS
 V2,
V3 and V4 do not require Income Tax
information, therefore are not differentiated by
Dependent/Independent or IRS matching status
 V1 and V5 are virtually identical with the
addition of high school completion status and
verification of identity/statement of educational
purpose for V5
POSSIBLE SOLUTION
 Creation
of Tracking Groups for priority V2, V3
and V4, attaching the appropriate documents in
RRRGREQ
 Allow V1 and V5 to fall into existing Verification
Tracking Groups, and batch posting the
additional documents to V5 on RORPOST
This requires 3 new tracking groups and 2 new
RORPOST rules
Discussion Time
Thank you!!!