We are excited to enter a new fiscal year (FY). Last month, our team completed over 95% of FY 2025 application reviews and released all previously blocked FY 2024 payments.

FY 2025 Funding Update

The continuing resolution signed into law on September 23, 2024, provides funding through December 20, 2024.  This means that the Impact Aid Program will receive a small percentage of the funds received for FY 2024 to start distributing initial payments.  It takes several weeks for the funds to make their way through the Department of Treasury, Office of Management and Budget and to the Department of Education, where they will be allotted to our account for distribution.  We expect that local educational agencies (LEAs) who have requested early payments will begin receiving vouchers for initial payments near the end of October.

Early Payment Requests

If your LEA must receive its first FY 2025 Impact Aid payment before the end of December 2024 to meet its expenses, please request an early payment in the Impact Aid Grant System. We will prioritize initial payments for LEAs that need them the most. See the user guide for instructions with screenshots.

Online Resources for the Upcoming Application

We have many training resources available as you prepare for your FY 2026 Impact Aid application, due January 31. We encourage you to visit our training page to review Section 7002 videos and Section 7003 videos, which cover important highlights of our webinars, including how to survey Federally connected children.

You may also find it helpful to visit our resources page to view our new Handbook for Applicants and Grantees, and various tools to support your application preparation.

Upcoming Live Webinars – New Schedule

Does your LEA have staff who are new to Impact Aid or need a refresher? Our updated live webinar schedule through September 2025 is available now.

Our webinars are FREE, open to all, and accessed through Microsoft Teams. Registration is required.  Once you register, you will receive a calendar invitation with a link.

Fiscal Year (FY) 2024 Payment Updates

Impact Aid has released interim section 7003(b) Basic Support payments at 100% of Prorated LOT; and section 7003(d) Payment for Children with Disabilities (CWD) at $1,200 per weighted student unit. All eligible Section 7002 districts have received their foundation payment.  Generally Comparable District and Heavily Impacted adjustments are complete. Look for section 7007 construction payments for eligible Section 7003 grantees and remaining funds payments for 7002 grantees this summer.

Payment Blocks

We anticipate issuing final FY 2024 Section 7003 payments much earlier than usual this year.  If you have concerns about receiving unplanned funds at the end of your school fiscal year, you may request a payment block to hold those funds. Here’s how:

1. Log in into to the Impact Aid Grant System (IAGS) using Login.gov at https://impactaidgrant.ed.gov/suite/sites/impact-aid
2. Click the $ button under 7003 Application Status or 7002 Application Status.
3. Click the Request Payment Block button at the top right of the Payment History page.
4. Choose the date you would like the payment block to end and choose 2024 as the fiscal year for which you would like to block your payments.
5. Click the Send to Review button.

When the request is approved, you’ll receive an email confirmation.  We cannot make payments to your LEA until the block expires or you change the date, so please plan carefully.

Amending FY 2025 Applications

The deadline to submit an amendment is July 1, 2024.  Typically, the annual amendment deadline is June 30, but as that falls on a Sunday this year, the deadline is the next business day.

Please visit this training page to view our amendment user guide, quick tips and short video to assist you in completing an application amendment through the IAGS .

FY 2024 Formula Construction 7007(a) Updates

As this is an even-numbered fiscal year, we received appropriated funds for formula construction grants totaling $19 million, a slight increase over the $17.4 million appropriated for FY 2022.  To be eligible to receive these funds, a local educational agency (LEA) must:

• Be eligible under section 7003(b)(2)- Payments for Heavily Impacted LEAs; or
• Have at least 50% military connected children in categories B and D(i): or,
• Have at least 50% children who reside on eligible Indian lands in category C.

LEAs do not apply for these funds.  Payments are calculated using the FY 2024 Section 7003 application child counts.  LEAs must use these funds for construction and report expenditures on their next Impact Aid application.

Impact Aid Customer Service Survey

Did you know that you can provide anonymous feedback on the assistance you received from an Impact Aid analyst?  Each analyst has a link to our customer service survey at the bottom of their email signature.  Please use this form to let us know what we’re doing well and where we can improve!

Grantee Satisfaction Survey

The 2024 Grantee Satisfaction Survey launched on April 4, 2024, and if you were selected, you should have received the survey from the “CFI Group on behalf of the Department of Education.”  The email subject line is “Department of Education Grantee Satisfaction Survey 2024.” The survey is administered by an independent third-party research firm, so our staff will not receive individual survey responses and will have no way of knowing how individual grantees responded.  While the survey is voluntary, we count on everyone’s participation to provide representative results and to help us identify how best to serve you.  The survey should take less than 15 minutes to complete, and our success depends on how many of you respond.

Upcoming Webinars

Does your local educational agency have staff who are new to Impact Aid or need a refresher?

Join the Impact Aid staff in an upcoming webinar.  Our webinars are FREE and open to all. Click this link for a complete schedule through September 2024.

Fiscal Year (FY) 2024 Appropriation News 

On March 23, 2024, the President signed the Further Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2024. The act includes provisions for Impact Aid as follows: 

• $1,474,000,000 for basic support payments under section 7003(b),  
• $48,316,000 for payments for children with disabilities under section 7003(d),  
• $19,000,000 for construction under section 7007(a) [formula grants],  
• $79,000,000 for Federal property payments under section 7002, and  
• $4,835,000 for facilities maintenance under section 7008 [for Department of Education-owned schools].  

It takes several weeks for the funds to make their way through the Department of Treasury, Office of Management and Budget (OMB), and to the Department of Education, where they will finally be allotted to our account for distribution.   We have started making Section 7003(b) interim payments at a proration of 100% using an “above the continuing resolution” increase of $397 million that OMB granted Impact Aid in mid-March, based on our historical rate of obligations.  We are able to pay at a higher proration than the usual 90% interim rate because the FY 2024 maximum payment data is close to final, and we received an increase in appropriated funds for basic support.  We will finish sending out the remainder of interim payments as soon as our full-year funds are available in our accounts.  At that time, we will also raise the rate for 7003(d) payments to send out additional Children with Disabilities funds.  We expect all interim 7003 payments to be released before the end of April. 

Amending FY 2025 Applications 

The deadline to submit an amendment is June 30, 2024.  

Please visit this training page to view our amendment user guide, quick tips and short video to assist you in completing an application amendment through the Impact Aid Grant System (IAGS).  

Upcoming Webinars 

Does your local educational agency have staff who are new to Impact Aid or need a refresher? 

Join the Impact Aid staff in an upcoming webinar.  Our webinars are FREE and open to all. Click this link for a complete schedule through September 2024.    

Faatimah Muhammad, 

Impact Aid Program Director 

Fiscal Year (FY) 2025 Monitoring Notifications 

Monitoring notifications for the fiscal year (FY) 2025 application have been emailed to selected grantees. If you have received one of these notifications and need assistance, you should contact the Impact Aid analyst listed on your monitoring notification email.  Our March 6th webinar will specifically focus on providing assistance to districts that were selected for monitoring. Registration links for those webinars have been sent out in the monitoring notices and are included below for your convenience.  We highly recommend attending the webinar.  For local education agencies (LEAs) using electronic data collection (EDC), there will be a special webinar on March 7th at 2 PM ET.  

Late FY 2025 Application 

Did you miss the application deadline?  The FY 2025 late application deadline for Section 7002 and Section 7003 is April 1, 2024.  Late applications are assessed a 10% payment penalty.  

Amending FY 2025 Applications 

The deadline to submit an amendment is June 30, 2024.  

Please visit this training page to view our amendment user guide, quick tips and short video to assist you in completing an application amendment through the Impact Aid Grant System (IAGS).  

Upcoming Webinars 

Does your LEA have staff who are new to Impact Aid or need a refresher? 

Join the Impact Aid staff in an upcoming webinar. Our webinars are FREE and open to all. Click this link for a complete schedule through September 2024.  

Fiscal Year (FY) 2025 Application Reminders

Did you miss the application deadline?  There is still time to apply for Impact Aid!  The fiscal year (FY) 2025 late application deadline for Section 7002 and Section 7003 is April 1, 2024.  Late applications are assessed a 10% payment penalty.

The deadline to submit an amendment is June 30, 2024. 

To start an amendment, log in to the Impact Aid Grant System.  On the Home page under the Status box, click the blue person icon to open your 7003 Application or the blue map icon to open your 7002 Application.  On the top right of the application record page, click the button to start an amendment.  Note that starting an amendment stops our review of your application and the review will not resume until your amended application is either canceled or signed and submitted.

On Demand Videos

You can find videos covering many of the most important topics from our webinars by clicking on our training page. You may click on the Section 7003 (Basic Support Payments) Training or Section 7002 (Payments for Federal Property) Training links depending on your interest.

Each video is best viewed in “full screen” mode and has a transcript and related links under the video playlist. 

Upcoming Webinars

Does your local education agency (LEA) have staff who are new to Impact Aid or need a refresher?

Join the Impact Aid staff in an upcoming webinar.  Our webinars are FREE and open to all. Click this link for a complete schedule through September 2024.  Join us on March 6 to find out what happens when your LEA is selected for an in-depth application review.

Faatimah Muhammad,

Impact Aid Program, Director

Impact Aid Grantees,

Happy New Year to the Impact Aid Community! Now is the time to start your Fiscal Year (FY) 2025 application.

Impact Aid Main Phone Line

The main telephone number for Impact Aid ((202) 260-3858) has been discontinued as planned. Please contact your State assigned analyst directly for any assistance and contact the analyst’s supervisor if you have not received a response within two business days.

FY 2025 Application Update by the Numbers

• FY 2025 applications are due on January 31, 2024, at 11:59 PM Eastern Time.
• Applications received after the deadline are assessed a 10% late penalty.
• To date, 64% of school districts that applied last year have not started an application.
• To date, 3% of school districts that applied last year do not have an active core user account for the Impact Aid Grant System (IAGS).

IAGS System Reminders

If you have not logged into the IAGS since August 29, 2023, you likely have not completed the required Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) setup process through Login.Gov.  For more information about account setup, visit this page on our portal November 2023 – News You Can Use.

Application Workshops

This month we will offer three application workshops for Section 7003 local educational agencies (LEAs) that have collected all of the necessary information to enter on the FY 2025 application but want guidance on entering it correctly in the IAGS.  Space will be limited, so please register for just one workshop on either 1/17, 1/18, or 1/23 at 2 p.m. Eastern time.  At the end of each workshop, most attendees will be able to confidently submit their application forward for signature.

New 7002 Videos

We’ve recording two new videos for 7002 applicants, covering the topics of eligibility, how to apply, and the payment formula.   You can find the videos by going to the Training menu on our website, or by clicking here.  Each video is best viewed in “full screen” mode and has a transcript and related links under the video playlist.

 Upcoming Webinars

Does your LEA have staff who are new to Impact Aid or need a refresher?

Join the Impact Aid staff in an upcoming webinar.  Our webinars are FREE and open to all. Click this link for a complete schedule through September 2024. Check out our offerings through January below.

Listserv Changes

This month, we will be transitioning to a new listserv platform.  Your subscription will automatically roll over to the new platform.  We will update our website with new listserv registration links once available.

Faatimah Muhammad,

Impact Aid Program, Director

Now is the time to start your fiscal Year (FY) 2025 application.  Get started today with your LEA’s application today and cross one thing off your to do list!

FY 2025 Application Update by the Numbers

• FY 2025 applications are due on January 31, 2024, at 11:59 PM Eastern Time.
• Applications received after the deadline are assessed a 10% late penalty.
• To date, 92% of school districts that applied last year have not started an application.
• To date, 3.4 % of school districts that applied last year do not have an active core user account for the Impact Aid Grant System.
• To date, 38% of active users have not yet signed in with a Login.gov account.

Impact Aid Grant System (IAGS) System Reminders

If you have not logged into the IAGS since August 29, 2023, you likely not completed the required Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) setup process through Login.Gov.  For more information about account setup, visit this page on our portal November 2023 – News You Can Use.

Fiscal Year (FY) 2024 Payments Update

The Impact Aid Program has begun releasing basic support payments for local educational agencies (LEAs) that have requested an early payment.  We have released 941 payments set at 50% proration and $500 per weighted student unit for Children with Disabilities (CWD).

If your LEA will require an FY 2024 initial Impact Aid payment before December 30, 2023, to meet operational expenses, you can request an expedited payment through the Impact Aid Grant System (IAGS). Go to this link for instructions for submitting the request through IAGS.  We will release additional payments as we receive additional funds in the future.

Upcoming Webinars

Does your LEA have staff who are new to Impact Aid or need a refresher?

Join the Impact Aid staff in an upcoming webinar.  Our webinars are FREE and open to all. Click this link for a complete schedule through September 2024. Check out our offerings through January below.

You can submit questions from inside the application system when you need help, send an email to Impact.Aid@ed.gov or contact your analyst directly at Impact Aid Staff.

Listserv Changes

In January, we will be transitioning to a new listserv platform.  Your subscription will automatically roll over to the new platform.  We will update our website with new listserv registration links once available.

Faatimah Muhammad,

Impact Aid Program, Director