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

Summary

People in the Tuition Reimbursement Program must work full-time in clinical care for the Department for the time agreed in their contract. If a participant is already a full-time Veterans Health Administration employee when they finish the course, their required service starts on that finish date. If a participant does not finish the course, they get no reimbursement and owe no service, except when tuition was paid under section 7622(e). In that case, the obligation is the same as if they had finished and starts on the date the failure is confirmed. course completion date — the date 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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