CHESSN management in TCSI
Updates to the baseline data requirements have occurred, these changes will improve data matching processes to ensure that students are identified correctly, and their HELP entitlements are accurate. A CHESSN can only be allocated if the student has either a verified TFN or a verified USI. The CHESSN will remain unallocated until the TFN and/or USI is provided and at least one is verified.
These changes will assist with instances where this is not sufficient information to allocate a CHESSN, for example, where there are already two or more students in the CHESSN database with the same full name and date of birth and another student with the same name and date of birth is being created.
CHESSN allocation process
When a provider has reported identity data for a student, a process will be triggered to automatically find or allocate a CHESSN for the student. Once a CHESSN is found, it will be directly populated into the student record (UID8) within TCSI.
The data to trigger the automated CHESSN look-up process is:
- E313: Student identification code
- E314: Date of birth,
- E402: Student family name,
- E403: Student given name first
- E404: Student given name others
- E315: Gender code)
- either a verified E416: Tax File Number (TFN) (TFN) or verified E584: Unique Student Identifier (USI). If both TFN and USI are supplied, both must verify for TCSI to identify the student.
Updates that trigger CHESSN look-up
The CHESSN look-up process will be re-executed each time a provider reports or amends:
- identity data for a student
- the TFN for a student for a student
- the USI for a student, or
- a loan record or Commonwealth scholarship record.
Where the re-trigger of the look-up process determines that the existing CHESSN on the student record is incorrect, it will be updated with the correct CHESSN.
[UPDATED 28 February 2024]