by MaybeHelpful » Thu Feb 01, 2018 7:17 am
guest124 wrote:Your weekly internship support payment rate is listed in box 6b of your Smart Service Agreement. Since my work site is on the other side of the coast from both my school and home, I qualify for the rate of 1000 dollars per week, or yes, almost 4000 a month.
Something to add to this is that the weekly internship support payment rate ($1000 is standard) will be listed here regardless of if you qualify. In other words, if your home/school address is greater than 50 miles from your SF, you get the amount per week listed in 6b in addition to your regular stipend. If your address is less than 50 miles you get nothing in addition to your stipend, even though there will be a rate listed in 6b.
Before LMI was in control, you would self report if you qualified when requesting the internship and SMART would confirm using Google Maps based on the shortest route. This might change now. As a side note, in the past people have reported on here having success getting payments even if the shortest route was under 50 miles, but passed through high traffic areas (e.g. your state capital) that were not realistic for daily travel if the next fastest route avoided this area and was over the 50 miles.
[quote="guest124"]Your weekly internship support payment rate is listed in box 6b of your Smart Service Agreement. Since my work site is on the other side of the coast from both my school and home, I qualify for the rate of 1000 dollars per week, or yes, almost 4000 a month.[/quote]
Something to add to this is that the weekly internship support payment rate ($1000 is standard) will be listed here regardless of if you qualify. In other words, if your home/school address is greater than 50 miles from your SF, you get the amount per week listed in 6b in addition to your regular stipend. If your address is less than 50 miles you get nothing in addition to your stipend, even though there will be a rate listed in 6b.
Before LMI was in control, you would self report if you qualified when requesting the internship and SMART would confirm using Google Maps based on the shortest route. This might change now. As a side note, in the past people have reported on here having success getting payments even if the shortest route was under 50 miles, but passed through high traffic areas (e.g. your state capital) that were not realistic for daily travel if the next fastest route avoided this area and was over the 50 miles.