It was fall this yr. The question that has yet to be asked is this his 1st semester on scholarship? Did they pay on time for the fall?
DS's for spring semester was paid back in late Feb, traditionally they pay 6 weeks after start of the semester.
This leaves me with a couple of questions:
1. Has his books and stipend been paid?
If so, have you contacted the school's bursar? It could be something as simple as a transposed school id number and the money is floating out in the computers trying to figure out where to send it.
Every bursar is informed that they are a ROTC recipient, so the bursar would be able to say we acknowledge he is. If they don't acknowledge it than you have a larger issue.
**** Hint by this time your child should have registered for fall. At least for the schools I know will place on a financial lock on the account and not allow them to register. Our DD got locked because unbeknown to us she had an $8.00 infirmary charge at VT.
If he has registered that means they are going to leave this on the AFROTC's table and not yours.
2. If he hasn't been able to register or the bursar does not see it on their sheets, you have a bigger issue.
In other words the AFROTC program is not recognizing him as a scholarship recipient. Go back to stipend and books, that should always tell you if they are recognizing him.
3. When did he take his DoDMERB?
If he took it as a rising sr in hs, and is a Type 2 3 yrs, than the exam is not valid and they will not pay him at all until they get a new one. These exams are only valid for 2 yrs prior to contracting.
Something very important for cadets that do the 3 yrs Type 2 need to keep an eye on especially if they took the exam earlier than Sept. of their SR. yr. It will fall out of regs prior to contracting.
4. Paperwork.
Did he submit birth certificate and ss card (originals)? If not it could be that simple of rejecting proper paperwork, and now it is going through various channels.
For our DS this yr during fall everyone in AFROTC system had pay messed up. I think he didn't get his pay until @ 6 weeks prior to the end of the semester, but since that time there hasn't been a problem.
You need to let your DS take care of it within the det. I personally would call the bursar's office today and talk to them personally to see if they acknowledge the scholarship. Go from there.
I will say I know at our DS's college if they believe there is no scholarship coming, they will charge you late payments and that is where the real hassle comes, because the AF will not pay that, so you need to fight with the school to get the charges removed, it is about 10% int. per month left on the balance. Again, I found that out because although they acknowledged DS had the scholarship, but it was paid close to 60 days late, they charged us. DS just took paperwork from ROTC as proof and the charges were removed, I think at that time it was close to 900 bucks in late fees.
The AF will eventually get it settled. Just make sure he checks with the det about 1x a week. OBTW, for our DS it was the same sit. The 1st shirt retired in the summer, and I guess they had the "I am outta here" feeling. Literally, left everything on the desk, so the new 1st shirt came in behind the 8 ball. DS's TDY pay for Summer Field Training was not even submitted until he approached the new shirt. Actually they didn't submit any of the cadets, talk about the poor new 1st shirt; spent the 1st week submitting paperwork for TDY's, books, scholarships, and stipends.
Good luck
