Academic Year 2025-26 Year-end Reminders
Review Ready to Certify Students
As a reminder, the following certification programs require awards to be certified prior to final payment:
- Fostering Futures Scholarship (FFS)
- Michigan Achievement Scholarship
- Michigan Achievement Skills Scholarship
- MI Future Educator Stipend
- MI GEAR UP
- Michigan Competitive Scholarship (MCS)
- Michigan Tuition Grant (MTG)
Please review your Certification Rosters for Fall, Winter, and/or Spring, and Summer for students who are in “Ready to Certify” status. Failure to certify all students by the certification deadline will prevent a payment for these potentially eligible students. As a reminder, all students including enrolled and not enrolled must be certified.
Review Eligible Students Reports/Information Roster
As a reminder, institutions should review the "Eligible Students Report" or “Information Roster” for the following reimbursement programs to determine if a reimbursement request is needed:
- Children of Veterans Tuition Grant (CVTG)
- Futures for Frontliners (F4F)
- MI Future Educator Fellowship
- Michigan Reconnect Scholarship/Expansion
- Police Officer's and Fire Fighter's Survivor Tuition Grant (STG)
- Tuition Incentive Program (TIP)
Final Payment for Academic Year 2025-26
The final payment date for Academic Year 2025-26 for all State financial aid programs is scheduled for August 12, 2026. To be included in the final payment, awards must be certified and reimbursements requested by the deadline of 5:00 p.m. on August 11, 2026. Only accepted requests that are submitted prior to the deadline will be included in the final payment.
For institutions submitting requests via file upload, here are some helpful tips:
- Review the MiSSG File Formats.
- Do not delay! You will need time to review your upload results, which may require evaluating any errors and re-uploading your file.
Note: The final payment for Michigan Achievement Skills Scholarship is scheduled for September 9, 2026, and the deadline to certify is 5:00 p.m. on September 8, 2026.
Balancing All State Financial Aid Programs
All institutions must balance expenditures for State financial aid programs following the final payment for the academic year. Institutions must issue any refunds owed to MI Student Aid no later than September 11, 2026 and complete the MI Student Aid Refund Worksheet.
To prepare for year-end balancing within MiSSG, the following steps should be followed:
- Utilize the "School Totals Report," a listing of your awarded students by semester/term to compare to your internal records.
- From the MiSSG Menu, select Reports, then select "School Totals Report."
- Select the 2025-26 Academic Year and the Aid Program, then select Generate Report.
- Review the Total Award amount.
- Compare the Total Award amount with your current payment history by selecting the tab on the left menu for the respective State Aid Program.
- Select Payment History.
- Review the Payment Total amount in the Payment History.
- Compare this figure with the total indicated on your School Totals Report.
Reviewing these figures will determine if your institution owes a refund from an overpayment.
If there are discrepancies in your reports or totals, please review your students individually on the School Totals Report to compare their award information in MiSSG to your institutional records.
To resolve discrepancies, please contact MiStudentAid@Michigan.gov.
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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