TCSI October Newsletter 2024

Post date

Friday, October 25, 2024 - 16:19

The TCSI Newsletter helps to keep our Higher Education and VET Student Loans providers up to date with the TCSI news.

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For VSL and Higher Education Providers

TCSI Reference Data for 2025 reporting year

TCSI Support has begun the process to update TCSI reference data for the 2025 reporting year.

2025 HELP Entitlement limits (HELP balance, OS-HELP and SA-HELP) have now been updated in TCSI.

Unit enrolments with Unit of study census dates (E489) in 2025 that were reported to TCSI prior to 3 October 2024 would not have been assessed against the 2025 HELP Entitlement limits. Providers who have reported 2025 census dates for students wanting to access a loan, where that loan was reported before 3 October 2024 and was adjusted or rejected, are advised to re-report the students’ HELP loan amount (E558) to determine whether the 2025 HELP limit increase will cover or partially cover those loans.

The following limits, caps, and reference data for 2025 will be updated throughout the coming weeks:

Student Contribution Band Rates and StudentContributionBandASCED

Student contribution bands are used to determine the maximum student contributions that can be charged for a place.

CGS Funding Cluster Rates

Student contribution amounts are determined at the unit of study level. Units of study are allocated to funding clusters, or parts of funding clusters, according to their classification under the Australian Standard Classification of Education as per chapter 7 of the Commonwealth Grant Scheme guidelines.

Commonwealth Supported Place Field of Education (CSPFOE)

Non-Table A providers are only approved to offer Commonwealth supported places in courses for specified fields of education (E461/E462) for specified Unit of Study Census Dates (E489).

Provider Caps

Provider OS-HELP Caps
Provider Micro-credentials Caps
Provider STARTUP-HELP Caps

Providers attempting to report 2025 data relating to the limits, caps, and reference data may encounter real-time validations (RTVs) preventing the data from being reported until the updates have been completed. Providers can monitor the progress of the updates via the TCSI Tracker.

Tax File Number (TFN) Verification guide update

The TFN Verification guide was recently updated to further assist providers and students.

Due to a recent increase in enquiries relating to TFN verification issues, the TCSI TFN Verification guide has been updated to provide further guidance. The update includes more detailed information on how students can utilise their myGov account to access their ATO account and online services, as well as a focus on key troubleshooting areas currently impacting TFN verification for providers and students.

Regular TFN verification means that a previously verified TFN can later be identified as a mismatch.

A student’s TFN will be sent for verification if any of their personal information is updated by the provider, and before a loan or reversal is sent to the ATO. This ensures that the details remain aligned between TCSI and the ATO, and the correct student is receiving the loan or loan re-credit.

TCSI Data Extracts: New data fields

TFN and USI verification statuses now available in TCSI Data Extracts!

Providers requesting an “All Collections (HE/VSL Student, Higher Education Staff, University Apps and Offers)” or “HE/VSL Student (All packets)” TCSI Data Extract, will now be able to view students TFN Verification Status and USI Verification Status at the time the extract was run.

These new columns are now available in the following files:

UndeterminedStudentsRecords
HEPStudents
VETStudents

Where students have an unverified TFN or USI, providers are encouraged to investigate these students via the Provider Notifications report in TCSI Analytics.

Upcoming webinars

All providers are invited to attend upcoming webinars and drop-in sessions.

As advised in the TCSI September Newsletter, TCSI Support webinars have now moved to Microsoft Teams. These sessions are an excellent opportunity to get up-to-date information and to ask any questions you might have about TCSI.

Webinar	Time	Date	To attend
TCSI Support drop-in session	2pm [AEDT]	13 November 2024	Register Here.
TCSI November Provider Webinar	2pm [AEDT]	27 November 2024	Register Here.
TCSI Support drop-in session	2pm [AEDT]	11 December 2024	Register Here.

Recordings of previous webinars can be found at the following locations:

For Monthly provider webinars, please go to the Webinars page.

TCSI Support appreciates providers’ continued engagement with TCSI webinars. Providers are encouraged to contact TCSISupport@education.gov.au if there are any questions regarding the transition to Microsoft Teams webinars.