Just thought Id share a lovely surprise that came up as I had planned for applying for MSP and Fellowship.
I did a 3 year residency for a 4 year payback, N+1 just like it says on every piece of advertising you see for the program. When i was checking out my vMPF my obligation was coded as 4.5 years from start. Looked up my contract to verify, yep 3.0 years of scholarship for 4.0 years. Figured it would be an easy fix and called AFPC.
My contract specifically said 4.0 years for 3.0 scholarship, signed up and down, initialled 5000 times. Well apparently since my residency had an intro week for in processing they coded my start date a week early. Which makes 3.02 years of residency. Elsewhere in the contract it says anything over an even year gets rounded up to the next 6 months. So 4.5 years.
But it gets better. I said i only signed up for 3 years of scholarship. Why would anyone take a week of week of funds and lose out on 6mo of MSP?
Well he sent me the "new" contract. Apparently there is an AFI that says if a recruiter makes an error on your contract, its the signers fault, even if you signed in good faith that what you see is what you get. So there was email traffic appended to my new contract from months after I started residency saying the recruiter was wrong, it should have been 4.5, and that he needs to reaccomplish that page. They couldn't find that in their system cause I never would have been F'ing ******ed enough to sign that. But they recoded it to 4.5 with a simple email.
When i asked what my options were, I could file for a record dispute. He said if i did they would provide me with the AFI. Then he said i was just trying to get out of my obligation to the government.
So there you have it. If you sign a contract make sure the dates code to exactly the number of years. Ironically the only reason im trying to fight it is so I can re-up without getting screwed from MSP cause those rules are just as stupid. I'm gonna file an appeal but I can guess the result. Ill update with results
I did a 3 year residency for a 4 year payback, N+1 just like it says on every piece of advertising you see for the program. When i was checking out my vMPF my obligation was coded as 4.5 years from start. Looked up my contract to verify, yep 3.0 years of scholarship for 4.0 years. Figured it would be an easy fix and called AFPC.
My contract specifically said 4.0 years for 3.0 scholarship, signed up and down, initialled 5000 times. Well apparently since my residency had an intro week for in processing they coded my start date a week early. Which makes 3.02 years of residency. Elsewhere in the contract it says anything over an even year gets rounded up to the next 6 months. So 4.5 years.
But it gets better. I said i only signed up for 3 years of scholarship. Why would anyone take a week of week of funds and lose out on 6mo of MSP?
Well he sent me the "new" contract. Apparently there is an AFI that says if a recruiter makes an error on your contract, its the signers fault, even if you signed in good faith that what you see is what you get. So there was email traffic appended to my new contract from months after I started residency saying the recruiter was wrong, it should have been 4.5, and that he needs to reaccomplish that page. They couldn't find that in their system cause I never would have been F'ing ******ed enough to sign that. But they recoded it to 4.5 with a simple email.
When i asked what my options were, I could file for a record dispute. He said if i did they would provide me with the AFI. Then he said i was just trying to get out of my obligation to the government.
So there you have it. If you sign a contract make sure the dates code to exactly the number of years. Ironically the only reason im trying to fight it is so I can re-up without getting screwed from MSP cause those rules are just as stupid. I'm gonna file an appeal but I can guess the result. Ill update with results
