Military-wide changes to the military’s Tuition Assistance program will require troops to pay back funds if they perform poorly in class beginning Aug. 28. Servicemembers taking undergraduate courses will have to achieve a grade of C or higher, and those taking graduate-level classes must obtain a grade of B or higher, or else they will be subject to “recoupment” and may have to pay out-of-pocket cash retroactively for the class’s costs. These changes were enacted by Department of Defense. Servicemembers who receive an incomplete grade for a class will have to repay their TA money unless they convert the incomplete into a satisfactory grade. Tuition Assistance also no longer covers laboratory fees or other fees that come on top of tuition. Servicemembers may have to pay out of pocket for those fees.
