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Federal Program Information: Student Financial Assistance Cluster (Various ALN?s) Criteria or Specific Requirement: N. Special Tests and Provisions ? Verification: For students selected for verification by the central processor, the University must obtain acceptable documentation to verify the information required, match information on the documentation to the student aid application, and, if necessary, submit data corrections to the central processor and recalculate awards (34 CFR Part 668 Subpart E). Condition: For certain students selected for verification, the information required to be verified either did not match the underlying supporting documentation (including certain tax information) or was not verified. Cause: Administrative oversight and insufficient internal control. Effect or Potential Effect: Inaccurate calculation of students? expected family contributions. Questioned Costs: None. Context: For 5 of 9 students tested, the University did not complete appropriate verification procedures. Identification as a Repeat Finding: This is a repeat of prior year Finding 2021-004. Recommendation: We recommend the University enhance its procedures and internal controls over verification to ensure that FAFSA information is appropriately verified. Views of Responsible Officials: Corrective action was taken. While verification was completed properly for each selected student, when changes were not required to the ISIRs of the students, ISIRs were not consistently released to COD. Now that the University is fully operating with its new financial aid system, JFA, we are running a daily process sending up ISIR corrections to COD for all students. Thorough review and training sessions on the verification process have been held with the financial aid team and we will continue to diligently monitor the verification process, including obtaining necessary documentation from students selected for verification and processing ISIR corrections.