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FOIA Number: 2013-0661-F
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This is not a textual record. This is used as an
administrative marker by the William J. Clinton
Presidential Library Staff.
Collection/Record Group:
Clinton Presidential Records
Subgroup/Office of Origin:
Americorps
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General Files
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USDA [Department of Agriculture]/AmeriCorps-Benefit Questions
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Benefits
January 31, 1995
SUBJECT: Benefits for Part time AmeriCorps Members
TO: Lloyd E. Wright, Director, CARD
Joel Berg, Director of National Service USDA
ISSUE: Are Part time AmeriCorps members eligible to receive health insurance and child
care?
BACKGROUND: The legislation states that members may receive health insurance and
child caΓe, but we are not required by law to provide these benefits. This question has
been raised before and was prompted today by a call from Richard Baird, AmeriCorps
Project Director in Maine. They are filling a vacancy with a part time person and called
for clarification on member benefits.
RECOMMENDATION: I discussed the matter with Joel Berg and proposed that we
provide for member health insurance, but not for child care. Joel is in agreement with this
as USDA policy. In the case of NRCS, we budgeted for health insurance to accompany
each AmeriCorps slot. In addition, providing coverage is consistent with the attempt to
provide health care to all Americans. The child care was not included in our original
budget. Full time AmeriCorps members have encountered difficulties in acquiring child
care coverage. The addition of coverage for part time members would increase the
complexity of child care benefits.
POLICY STATEMENT: The following should be added to the USDA AmeriCorps
operations manual.
Part time AmeriCorps members are eligible to receive health insurance during their
period of service. Members who are already covered by a health insurance policy,
should not drop their coverage and change to the policy offered under AmeriCorps.
Project Directors must make sure that health insurance rosters are updated to include
members who do not have policies when they enroll in AmeriCorps. (Include address and
phone/fax numbers for submitting updates)
Part time members will not receive child care coverage.
Pauls Cole Jones
PAULA COLE JONES
time M.
ERICORP
USDA/AmeriCorps
Natural Resources Conservation Service
*
A
760 South Broadway
Salina, KS 67401-4642
SERVICE
(913) 823-4500
FAX (913) 823-4540
Subject: PER - AmeriCorps Program - Student Loan
Date: December 15, 1994
Benefit Provisions
To: Paula Cole Jones, Program Manager, AmeriCorps
File Code: 360
NRCS, Washington, D.C.
As discussed with you previously by telephone, we are having difficulties
with the student loan benefit provisions of the AmeriCorps Program.
One member signed up for AmeriCorps with the intention of the educational
award helping him pay off his school loan. As it turns out, he has a
conventional promissory note loan that he obtained to finish his education.
This loan is apparently not a qualified loan under Titles IV, VII, or VIII of the
Higher Education Act of 1965.
In recruiting for members, we did not make specific the qualifications for
student loan benefits. We simply stated the student loans could be paid off
with the educational award. Now the member finds out his loan cannot be
paid off using the educational awards. One of the main benefits he believed
the program would provide is not, in fact, a benefit.
Several other members have experienced extreme difficulty with their loan
holders regarding the student loans. The loan holders say they have never
heard of the program and have been quite uncooperative. These are
members who are in the process of paying off qualified Stafford loans.
Perhaps a better instrument is needed whereby the loan holders can easily
contact the corporation rather than slugging it out with the students.
We are requesting an exception be granted in those cases where a loan
institution made a loan to a member for the purpose of education, but the
loan does not meet the specific requirements set forth in the Higher
Education Act of 1965. The details of qualified student loans were not
made available to the members until after they had made a commitment.
Discussion with the member indicates he is considering pursuing this
through his legislative representative.
The Natural Resources Conservation Service
formerly the Soil Conservation Service
is an agency of the
United States Department of Agriculture
AN EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYER
,
Paula Cole Jones
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Thank you for your assistance on this matter.
Lanys. Males
Larry D. Miles
Program Manager
CC:
Lloyd E. Wright, Director, PRG-CAR, Washington, DC
bc:
James Habiger
Jim Meisenheimer