§7623 — Title 38 Veterans' Benefits | U.S. Code

Summary

Participants in the Tuition Reimbursement Program must work full‑time in clinical roles for the Department for the time set in their agreement under 7603. If they are already full‑time Veterans Health Administration employees on the course completion date, their obligation starts that day. If they fail a course and tuition was not paid under 7622(e), they get no reimbursement and have no service obligation. If tuition was paid under 7622(e) and they fail, they still owe the same service time as if they had completed, and the course completion date is when the failure is confirmed. Course completion date = the day the participant finishes the training.

Title 38, §7623

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(a)Each participant in the Tuition Reimbursement Program shall provide service in the full-time clinical practice of such participant’s profession as a full-time employee of the Department for the period of obligated service provided in the agreement of such participant entered into under section 7603 of this title.

(b)A participant who on such participant’s course completion date is a full-time employee in the Veterans Health Administration shall be considered to have begun serving such participant’s period of obligated service on the course completion date.

(c)Except in the case of a participant whose tuition was paid pursuant to section 7622(e) of this title, if a participant in the Tuition Reimbursement Program fails to successfully complete a course, no reimbursement will be provided and no period of obligated service will be incurred.

(d)In the case of a participant whose tuition was paid pursuant to section 7622(e) of this title and who fails to complete the course involved, the period of obligation shall be of the same duration as it would have been if the participant had successfully completed the course and the course completion date shall be considered to be the date on which the participant’s failure becomes an established fact.

(e)For the purposes of this section, the term “course completion date” means the date on which a participant in the Tuition Reimbursement Program completes such participant’s course of training under the program.

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1994—Subsec. (b). Pub. L. 103–446 substituted “Veterans Health Administration” for “Department of Medicine and Surgery”. 1991—Pub. L. 102–40, § 402(b)(1), renumbered section 4323 of this title as this section. Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 102–83 substituted “Department” for “Veterans’ Administration”. Pub. L. 102–40, § 402(d)(1), substituted “7603” for “4303”. Subsecs. (c), (d). Pub. L. 102–40, § 402(d)(1), substituted “7622(e)” for “4322(e)”. 1988—Subsecs. (c), (d). Pub. L. 100–687 substituted “4322(e)” for “4322(f)”.

§7623 Obligated service

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Title 38, §7623

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