session 68 lars review session martha shine angela baker
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Session 68
LaRS Review Session
Martha Shine
Angela Baker
LaRS Process Overview
• Invoice Submission – quarterly submission of lender
portfolio activity
• Validation – edit routine to ensure data reliability &
accuracy
• Notification – alerts to lenders & servicers
• Payment/Collections – process for issuing payments
and collecting debts
• Reports – management information tools
LaRS Process Flow
Lender/ServicerInvoice
SubmissionValidation
Accounts PayableModule
AccountsReceivable
Module
Alerts
Collections
Payments
Lender
• Origination Fees• Lender Fees• Interest Subsidy• Loan Activity• Loan Portfolio Status• E-Mail Alert FTP Users (SAIG – receipt of file)
• Check data (e.g. valid combinations)• E-Mail Alert (FTP users)• Reasonability
• Origination & Lender Fees• Consolidation Loan Rebate Fee• Review Findings• Check or ACH acceptable• http://www.fp.ed.gov/PORTALSWebApp/fp/Manuals.jsp
• Automated Clearinghouse (ACH)• U.S. Treasury Offsets
• E-Mails• Payments• Receivables
• Lender Search Report
LaRS – Validation (Is your data correct?)
• Origination and Lender Fees
– Loan type, fee percent & interest rate validation
• Interest Benefits
– Loan type & interest rate validation
• Special Allowance Subsidy
– Loan type, SAP category, & interest rate validation
• Loan Activity & Portfolio Status
– Completeness and accuracy
LaRS - Notifications
• E-Mail Alerts
– File transfer acceptance
• Single versus multiple invoice submission
– Payment notification
• Invoice Detail
– Receivable notification
• Invoice Detail
• Weekly
– Reasonability
LaRS - Notifications
• Technology Challenges
– Returned mail
– Spam & pop-up blockers
LaRS – Notifications
• Payments
– Disbursements made within 7-10 business days
– Notifications issued 12-24 hours prior to
payment
– U.S. Treasury Offsets
• Incoming ACH – ‘TCS TREAS 449’
– call (800) 304-3107
LaRS – Notifications
• Receivables
– Payable to FSA
– Due upon receipt
– Lender billed weekly
– Funds Remittance Guide
http://www.fp.ed.gov/PORTALSWebApp/fp/M
anuals.jsp
LaRS Lender Search Report
• On-line users
– Available prior/post submission
• File transfer
– Available post submission
LaRS Lender Search Report
• Access
– FMS with appropriate user id/password
• Uses
– Reconciliation
– Compliance audit
– FSA lender reviews
LaRS Review Objectives
• To verify the procedures are adequate
• To confirm the accuracy to book and records
• To verify accurate billing/payment of each LaRS
invoice
• To verify timely filing
Core elements of a LaRS review
• Disbursement & other procedures
• Reconciliation of LaRS invoice to the general
ledger
• Test Interest Rate Changes
• Test LaRS data elements
• Validate timeliness of LaRS submission
• Test Reporting NSLDS Data to GA
Review process
• Selection of entity type and scope period
• Pre-planning,(notification of documents needed,
sampling, identify data formats, and summary data
analysis)
• Test data accuracy of LaRS quarterly invoice(s)
(sample calculations)
Review Techniques
• Compare origination & lender fees to effective
dates
• Compare interest rates to effective dates
• Compare special allowance codes to effective
dates
• LaRS part comparison (e.g. sales)
Review Techniques cont’d
• Design your sampling spreadsheet to cover
specific scope period requirements, in lieu of
general requirements.
• Gear pre-plan to review LaRS for specific entities,
such as, lender, school lender, exceptional
performer or common review initiative.
Review Techniques cont’d
• Remember, LaRS data is at the summary level. Your sample should look at loan level detail.
• Utilize Data Mart during pre-planning for lender and servicer identity, lender scorecards, access to historical lender data (pre 2002) and monthly data loads for PEPS, NSLDS, LaRS
• Utilize PEPS to determine previous review periods, deficiencies and any liabilities paid
Review Techniques cont’d
• Utilize NSLDS to verify repayment conversion
date, last date of attendance, borrower status, loan
type, disbursement date, lender and servicing
history.
LaRS Review Techniques cont’d
• Verify the accuracy of ending and average daily
balances reported in Part IV, LARS by reviewing
sampled loans using payment history.
• Verify that variable interest rate changes are
updated timely and accurately.
LaRS Review Techniques cont’d
• Lender/Servicer Eligibility
• Part Comparison (e.g. accurately reporting
disbursements in Parts I & IV)
• Fee calculation
Timely Filing
• Utilize Data Mart to check for LaRS submission
gaps
• Invoice must be submitted within 90 days of the
end of the quarter
Challenges
• Consolidation Loan Rebate Fee
– Work with your lender/servicer to ensure timely payments to ED.
• ACSI – Customer Satisfaction
– On-line form navigation & correction
• Informed Lenders
– Servicers improve communication with clients.
– Lenders - notify FSA of personnel changes
Resources
• FP Portal (www.fp.ed.gov)
– Rates, Forms & User Guides for guarantors &
lenders
– http://www.fp.ed.gov/PORTALSWebApp/fp/
Manuals.jsp
• IFAP (www.ifap.ed.gov)
– Policy updates
• Lender Reporting Team @ fsa_lr@ed.gov
Technical Slide
We appreciate your feedback and comments.
We can be reached at:
Martha Shine, 312-886-8760
Email: martha.shine@ed.gov
Angela Roca-Baker, 202-377-3322
Email: angela.roca-baker@ed.gov
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