Originally Posted by RogerD408

Since that is a legacy rule waiting until SOMETIME in January for the sweep is necessary. The current system only follows current program rules.

Originally Posted by sdsearch

You need to wait and see, but much later than 1/1/2019. All that they've said is "early 2019", so I think you can rule next October , but I wouldn't even bet on it necessarily being done by the end of January. Hopefully, yes, count on it,no.

Status lasts through February of a given year, so they may feel they have until late February to figure it all out.

To put it another way, i would expect it to all go as smoothly as the merger so far, and be pleasantly surprised if it goes much better.