July 2008 Upload Issues

July 20, 2008  

Regarding the error: 
Counseling Hours (Contact+Prepare) must be at least 1 hr for initial Face-Face Counseling Session

SBA seems to have made a slight change in the programming regarding EDMIS uploads and you may have seen a few new errors after you get the report back from SBA. 

This seems to be occurring when the first session after 10/1/2007 is not an initial session and does not require the one hour.  In previous quarters SBA allowed it to pass per their original agreement, so something appears to have changed on their side.