Assign Awards & Override with Professional Judgment

Purpose:  Use this document as a reference on how to assign and override awards with a professional judgment using ctcLink.

Audience:  Financial Aid staff.

You must have at least one of these local college managed security roles:

  • ZD FA Award Processing
  • ZD FA Director
  • ZZ FA Award Processing
  • ZZ FA Award Processor

If you need assistance with the above security roles, please contact your local college supervisor or IT Admin to request role access.

Assign Awards and Override with Professional Judgment

Navigation:  Financial Aid > Awards > Award Processing > Invoke Professional Judgment

  1. The Award Override search page displays.
  2. Enter the Empl ID.  
  3. Enter the Academic Institution. 
  4. Enter the Aid Year.
  5. Select the Search button.  
  6. The Award Override page displays.
  7. On the Professional Judgment tab, if necessary, select the [+] button to add a row to add a new award.  
  8. In the new row, enter Nbr.
  9. Select the Action value.
  10. Enter the Item Type.
  11. Enter the Offered amount.
  12. Enter the Disbursement Plan.
  13. Enter the Split Code.

Using the Professional Judgment page overrides all Packaging Rules, including SAP, outstanding checklists, and any other fail safes in the system to catch erroneous awarding.  Use this page sparingly.

  1. Use the Validate button to run the validation process.
  2. Use the Post button to start the posting process.
An image of the Professional Judgment tab with red annotation boxes outlining the NUM, Action, Item Type, Description, Offered, Accepted, Validate and Post buttons
  1. Note, you can review the Award Status by selecting the Status tab - note the PJ checkbox is checked.
  2. The process to manually award financial aid is now complete.
  3. End of procedure.

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