There have been a few updates to National PEARS prior to the Launch of FY26 Plans. The following article details those changes.
“Annual Plan” has now been renamed to “State plan” on the home page and throughout the system to match documentation from FNS.
Goals and objectives now have a set order and will not reorder throughout submission of the plan.
Budget Import:
An updated import template is now available. Users can download the template at any time using this link: https://national.pears.io/static/downloads/annual_plan__budget_template.xlsx
- Total Agency Budget now shows the discrepancies between planned staffing and planned travel versus their counterparts in the project budgets. These discrepancies are also displayed in the Total Agency Budget of the the system.
In the budget template, numbers are now rounded prior to calculations to ensure consistency between the template and the system.
A rounding error in indirect costs was corrected. Previously the system would round decimals to the nearest whole number but it will now accept two decimal places.
Planned Staffing and travel have additional rows to better accommodate more data.
Manage Agencies and Users
State Agencies can now add implementing agencies to the current reporting period beyond the initial setup module. See State Plan Setup and IA Management for more information on this process.
Separation of agencies and users in the modals for a cleaner user experience.
Coming Soon
Assurances and Signatures will always be visible, rather than only available after clicking submit.
Ability to add attachments when requesting changes.