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In Academic Year 2025-26, the Office of Higher Education will be sending a month end GovDelivery recapping the communications shared that month. This is not an exhaustive list and we encourage you to review all previous messages.
Year End Balancing – Deadline September 12, 2025
All institutions must balance expenditures for State financial aid programs following 4th quarter payments. Institutions must issue any refunds owed to the Office of Higher Education no later than September 12, 2025 and complete the program specific Refund Worksheet available on our Web site.
Tuition Incentive Program (TIP) Rate – Deadline September 29, 2025
Per Public Act No. 120 of 2024, the tuition rate that may be received for TIP at participating private or independent degree-granting institutions is calculated annually by averaging the standard in-district tuition rates of participating Michigan community colleges. The 2025-26 rate is $135 per credit hour and has been prepopulated in MiSSG.
All other institutions will need to enter their 2025-26 TIP Rates in MiSSG by September 29, 2025.
To enter the 2025-26 TIP Rates, please follow these instructions:
- Log into MiSSG.
- Select Tuition Incentive Program from the MiSSG Menu.
- Select School Profile.
- Update.
- Enter credit rate information.
- Save.
2025-26 MiSSG Aid Administrator Security Access Form Available – Deadline September 30, 2025
Financial aid directors must annually renew the users at their institution by submitting a new MiSSG Aid Administrator Security Access Form.
MiSSG user accounts not renewed by September 30, 2025 will be deactivated.
MCS/MTG Budgets for 2026-27 – Deadline October 1, 2025
Between now and October 1, 2025, institution budget screens for Academic Year 2026-27 must be updated (with prior-year 2025-26 data). It is important all budgets are entered ahead of loading 2026-27 FAFSA records.
To update your institution's 2026-27 budget, please follow these instructions:
- Log into MiSSG.
- Select Michigan Competitive Scholarship from the MiSSG Menu.
- Select School Profile.
- Change the Academic Year at the top of the screen from Year 2025-26 to 2026-27.
- Select Budget.
- Enter both the Tuition and Fees and Room and Board using your institution's 2025-2026 Budget Information.
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Save.
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NOTE: If there is no change to budget amounts, click, "The budget amounts have been reviewed and approved," check box.
For private institutions, once the MCS budget is entered, the MTG budget fields will populate automatically with the same budget information. No further action is required in the MTG School Profile regarding the budget after MCS is updated.
If a budget is not entered by October 1, your 2025-26 Budget Information will be used for 2026-27 awards.
STATE BUDGETS FOR 2026-27
Fall Certification/Reimbursement Requests – Date Available TBD
The Fall 2025 certifications and reimbursements will become available after the Fiscal Year 2026 budget has been approved. Stay tuned for additional payment details and timelines.
MI Future Educator Notes:
- The MI Future Educator Stipend Fall Certification open date is scheduled for September 2, 2025. Payments will be issued weekly after the Fiscal Year 2026 budget has been approved.
- The MI Future Educator Fellowship Confirmation of Eligibility and 2025-26 Commitment to Teach in Michigan Agreement (CTMA) will be available after the Fiscal Year 2026 budget has been approved. Payments will be issued monthly.
Clear Ineligible Reasons – No Deadline
MiSSG School Users should be accessing MiSSG to review the “Clear Ineligible Reasons” and to update ineligible student records for Academic Year 2025-26, if applicable. The “Clear Ineligible Reasons” can be located in the MiSSG menu for the following programs:
- Children of Veterans Tuition Grant
- Fostering Futures Scholarship
- Futures for Frontliners/Path 2
- MI Future Educator Fellowship
- MI Future Educator Stipend
- MI GEAR UP Scholarship
- Michigan Achievement Scholarship
- Michigan Competitive Scholarship
- Michigan Reconnect Scholarship/Expansion
- Michigan Tuition Grant
- Survivor Tuition Grant
- Tuition Incentive Program
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Michigan Achievement Skills Scholarship Tuition Rate Reminder
The Michigan Achievement Skills Scholarship is only for tuition charges. Training providers should only certify students for cost of tuition up to $2,000.
Additionally, students receiving the Michigan Achievement Skills Scholarship should not be charged a different rate than students not receiving the scholarship.
Update on the 2025-26 Michigan Achievement Skills Scholarship
We are working with our partners from the Michigan Talent Connect Web site to update program information for the 2025-26. You will receive an opt-in email when the annual review is complete if one or more programs remain eligible.
You will need to opt in at that time to participate in Academic Year 2025-26.
The budget for the State of Michigan, which includes the appropriation for this program, has not passed. This will delay 2025-26 certification and payments. Training providers will not be able to certify 2025-26 payments until November.
Students who complete their program prior to September 9 cannot be certified in Academic Year 2025-26.
We will request training providers include their current program costs and prior two-year programs costs in order to participate.
Michigan Achievement Skills Scholarship Overview
For students who graduate from high school in Michigan with a diploma or certificate of completion or achieved a high school equivalency certificate in 2023 or after.
The scholarship provides up to $2,000 for students to attend an eligible Career Training program tuition in Michigan, per year, up to two years.
Students cannot receive the Michigan Achievement Skills Scholarship in the same academic year they receive the Michigan Achievement Scholarship for the Community College Guarantee.
Program Monitoring
Training providers will be expected to participate in program monitoring. Monitoring will begin this month. Each training provider will be notified individually when they have been selected to participate in program monitoring.
Training providers must provide documentation for students who received our scholarship at that time.
During monitoring, our team will be collecting documentation that demonstrates a student was eligible to receive our scholarship and that the scholarship was applied to eligible tuition charges.
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The Michigan Department of Lifelong Education, Advancement, and Potential is not affiliated with National Merit Scholarship Corporation or its registered trademarks National Achievement®, Achievement Scholarship®, or Achievement Scholar®.
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