Disgruntled wrote:My school sent off an invoice after much confusion on their part regarding SMART paying for my tuition (the damn financial aid office lost the letter I was supposed to give them 3 separate times....) at the end of September. It's now approaching the end of October and the school still hasn't been paid and they're starting to come after me why they haven't gotten paid yet (even though they're supposed to send things like that to SMART who is covering the tab...supposedly). Has anyone's school not been paid yet or am I a special case?
I had to deal with this every semester.
Every semester, I had to have a 1:1 meeting with someone from the last minute essay writing service bursar's office to explain that the SMART program will not pay unless invoiced. The university has a policy of never invoicing 3rd parties. This game of chicken played out multiple times. The university gave in every time but never without multiple meetings.
Kind of an aside, but it was real fun during the government shutdown. The university expected me to pay up, I was contractually not allowed to pay, and if I was removed from classes I'd be contractually screwed. I ended up being threatened that my debt was going to be transferred to state tax collections as a tax debt, and removed from enrollment and had to go begging to not be kicked out of university.
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