Release 5 – June 1, 2025

New Features and Enhancements

CAS Applicant Portal Enhancements

Disclaimer: on rare occasions, a new feature or enhancement may be moved to a future release or otherwise subject to change.

Additional Validation of Social Security Number (SSN) Question

This enhancement is automatically available for use by all CASs and participating programs. No action is required on the part of any association, school, or program. Contact a member of your account team for more information.

Some CASs have a Social Security Number (SSN) question, where applicants can enter their SSNs. To prevent applicants from entering invalid SSNs, the question logic has been updated so that an error appears when any of the following scenarios occur (note that many of these validations were previously in place):

  • All the same number (e.g., 111111111)
  • 123456789
  • 000, 9, or 666 as the first numbers (e.g., 000-12-3456, 987-65-4321, or 666-12-3456)
  • 00 as the middle two numbers (e.g., 123-00-3456)
  • 0000 as the last numbers (e.g., 123-12-0000)

This enhancement improves applicant data accuracy and reduces future issues with applicant financial aid processing, where accurate SSN information is required.

Liaison Outcomes Enhancements

The following enhancements are now available in Liaison Outcomes. If you have any questions about these features, contact a member of your account team or support.

Disclaimer: on rare occasions, a new feature or enhancement may be moved to a future release or otherwise subject to change.

Liaison Outcomes Help Center Survey

To better understand our users' needs and learn how we can improve our help center, we invite you to complete this 10-question survey, which will close on June 27. All participants will be entered into a drawing, and two winners will be awarded a $50 Amazon gift card.

Coming Soon!

Please review the list of upcoming events, including product updates and regional training opportunities.

Event

Date

Details

experience: LIAISON | San Antonio

June 16–18, 2025

Refine your skills, broaden your perspectives, and elevate your strategic thinking alongside like-minded higher ed professionals at experience: LIAISON, June 16–18, 2025 in San Antonio, TX. Register now!

Shared Lookup Table Updates for Fall 2025

September 2025

Many fields in the Applicant Portal contain predefined answer values that applicants can select; for example, the Country and County fields both have predefined answer values. These values are housed in shared "lookup tables" which are viewable in your CAS's/UniCAS's data dictionary file.

Lookup table change requests can be sent to a member of your account team, who will compile and review these requests. The last date to submit lookup table update requests is June 13, 2025.

New lookup table values will appear in the CAS Applicant Portal in September 2025 (subject to change).

Visit the Shared Lookup Table Updates page for more information.