Financial Aid Item Types

Purpose: Use this document as a reference for how to decipher item types for Financial Aid in ctcLink.

Audience: Financial Aid Directors.

Item Types are used to identify, define, and categorize aid that is awarded by your institution. Item Type identifiers are composed of twelve digits. Examples of how Item Type identifiers are constructed and used are listed below.

Logic for Item Type Identifier Construction

Financial Aid Item Types


 

1st   Position

(Always “9”)

2nd   Position

(Aid Type)

3rd   Position

(Funding   Source)

4th   – 8th Positions

(filler)

9th   – 12th Positions

(Program   Specific)

9 = Financial Aid

1 = Grants

1 = Federal

Zeros “0”

Numeric Values

 

2 = Scholarship

2 = State

  
 

3 = Work Study

3 = Institution

  
 

4 = 3rd Party Sponsorship

4 = Other

  
 

5 = VA Benefits

   
 

6 = Loans

7 = Waivers/Payment

   
 

8,9 = not used

   


 

Note: 97xxxxxxxxxx item types are associated with 7xxxxxxxxxxx waiver or payment item types on the SF side so should be created as a placeholder that will not disburse to Customer Accounts.

Example of Logic

Example of Logic

Global Item Types List

To track your school's configured item types, you can run the following query: QCS_FA_GLOBAL_ITEM_TYPES_LIST 

Navigation: Reporting Tools > Query > Query Viewer

An image of the QCS_FA_GLOBAL_ITEM_TYPES_LIST query results

Item Type Key Words

Key Word 1 

Keyword 1 - The college's FA department selects the appropriate value to assign to the FA item type. Note this Key Word is tied to IPEDS reporting. 

Examples below:

An image of Key Word 1 with Description and Short Description columns displaying

Key Word 3

Keyword 3 - FA Support selects the appropriate value to assign to the item type. This Keyword is tied to QCS_FA_GLOBAL_ITEM_TYPES_LIST query maintenance.

Examples below:

An image of the Key Word 3 list with Description and Short Description displaying

Review the ctcLink Accounting Manual (CLAM) for more information regarding Financial Aid Item Types: ctcLink Accounting Manual | 50.50 Financial Aid

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