Another important piece of the 2025-26 award year processing will soon be in place.
The Department of Education announced that on March 23 they will implement the functionality to support Campus-Based programs and the processing of Pell Grant, TEACH, and Direct Loan awards for the 2025-26 award year in the Common Origination and Disbursement (COD) system.
The implementation process will suspend COD batch processing from midnight to 11 a.m. (ET) on Sunday, March 23. During the outage:
- Users will not be able to submit or retrieve data via the COD website.
- Users will not be able to access the COD Reports area of the COD website.
The announcement also includes two resources for schools:
- Reminders and 2025–26 Funding Authorization and Disbursement Information – This provides reminders for the 2025–26 award year and 2025–26 funding authorization and disbursement information.
- COD System Changes for 2025–26 – This highlights the system changes that will be implemented.
Questions can be directed to the FSA Partner and School Relations Center at 1-800-848-0978 or via email at CODSupport@ed.gov.
