Older Restriction Notes

Restrictions/Holds in our app

Holds are used to flag accounts and individuals for a variety of reasons. Holds can prevent further funding being disbursed, prevent new applications being created or a combination of both. We also need to account for some restrictions that act as warnings (ex. 1 strike out of 2 in the case of a full time student who does not successfully complete their studies).

Epics

• Hold creation (Types and what they effect)
• Talk to federal system and receive list of restricted users automate holds being added/removed
• Holds manual adding/removal
• Enable ability to automate our system to begin adding provincial holds based on criteria
• Hold display in app and removing ability to do certain things (new applications, complete assessment, receive funding).

Key Decisions Made

MVP

• Federal Holds - Stop everything going forward until resolved by federal agency
• SABC/Provincial Holds - Stop everything until staff decide whether or not hold is account or application specific.
• Ministry staff must approve all holds incoming.

Future:

1. Ministry Staff will review new holds sorted by importance and approve incoming change reports (ex. scholastic update from institution)
   1. Verification
   2. Academic
   3. Financial
   4. Legacy (Shown when an account with a legacy restriction first logs in)
   5. Federal Holds (View new ones)
2. Add more granularity to each restriction:
   • Restrict all future applications until resolved
   • Restrict future Full-time/Part-time applications only
   • Restrict future disbursements for particular
   • Restrict ALL funding

Post MVP we need to look at how holds:

• Impact to Interest Free Status