I am about to be in the midst of a dispute that could end up being very costly for me. Specifically, two years worth of pay with one less year of service for that period than I was paid for. If anyone has any advice or experience from similar issues I would greatly appreciate it.
After OCS the MCTAP was offered and I took it. The agreement that I entered into was reimbursement of certain educational expenses in exchange for several years of extra service being added to my contract.
Cut and dry, right?
Yesterday I get an e-mail saying my PEBD was being adjusted by a year as per the MCTAP. I pull up the agreement that I signed, re-read it several times, and there is nothing there. Then I look at the MCO for MCTAP and it does say that PEBD will be changed to date of commission instead of when you went to OCS (a difference of one year, in my case).
Ok, but I never entered into an agreement saying that I would exchange that year for the tuition assistance. The agreement that I signed is specific in what I am obligated to do for the assistance. At the bottom is the MCO and the agreement.
Currently I have only responded to the e-mail I received, and I anticipate a response along the lines of "the agreement is none of my business I am just doing what I am told," with instructions to write a letter of appeal that will likely get forwarded a million times throughout the bureaucracy and lost/never read.
When that response comes and my appeal is lost/never read, what other options do I have? I know there is the Board for Correction of Naval Records that everyone had to appeal to for the CLRP in order to get tuition reimbursement that was promised them.The amount of money I could end up owing isn't small, I estimate it at over $6,000. That doesn't even include the amount of future earnings that I would lose over future service due to the loss of that year.
This is pretty simple to me, I agreed to one thing and now I am getting the shaft for something I never agreed to. Plain and simple.
Below is the MCO and the agreement.
http://www.marines.mil/news/publications/Documents/MCO 1560.33.pdf
I appreciate any help or advice... thank you.
After OCS the MCTAP was offered and I took it. The agreement that I entered into was reimbursement of certain educational expenses in exchange for several years of extra service being added to my contract.
Cut and dry, right?
Yesterday I get an e-mail saying my PEBD was being adjusted by a year as per the MCTAP. I pull up the agreement that I signed, re-read it several times, and there is nothing there. Then I look at the MCO for MCTAP and it does say that PEBD will be changed to date of commission instead of when you went to OCS (a difference of one year, in my case).
Ok, but I never entered into an agreement saying that I would exchange that year for the tuition assistance. The agreement that I signed is specific in what I am obligated to do for the assistance. At the bottom is the MCO and the agreement.
Currently I have only responded to the e-mail I received, and I anticipate a response along the lines of "the agreement is none of my business I am just doing what I am told," with instructions to write a letter of appeal that will likely get forwarded a million times throughout the bureaucracy and lost/never read.
When that response comes and my appeal is lost/never read, what other options do I have? I know there is the Board for Correction of Naval Records that everyone had to appeal to for the CLRP in order to get tuition reimbursement that was promised them.The amount of money I could end up owing isn't small, I estimate it at over $6,000. That doesn't even include the amount of future earnings that I would lose over future service due to the loss of that year.
This is pretty simple to me, I agreed to one thing and now I am getting the shaft for something I never agreed to. Plain and simple.
Below is the MCO and the agreement.
http://www.marines.mil/news/publications/Documents/MCO 1560.33.pdf
I appreciate any help or advice... thank you.
