Anonymous
10/15/2024 14:16
Subject: Anyone been reimbursed yet from FCPS?
My check amount was a big amount but it was not what was approved. It was short an amount that did not line up with services. Like each session was $100 flat. So it wasn’t like they didn’t pay for 2-3 sessions but some sort of weird percentage with cents. It makes no sense at all but I am too tired of dealing with FCPS to reach out.
My husband refers to the missing amount as the “FCPS administrative fee.”
My husband refers to the missing amount as the “FCPS administrative fee.”
Anonymous
10/14/2024 13:48
Subject: Anyone been reimbursed yet from FCPS?
so if they are just sending people checks in random amounts, they could have done that a year and a half ago and saved everyone a lot of hassle
Anonymous
10/14/2024 13:26
Subject: Anyone been reimbursed yet from FCPS?
Anonymous wrote:Extremely funny to me how this was tossed in SpEd teachers laps in what might’ve been mid-late January with the explicit direction that everything needed to be done by last day of school… and years later Gatehouse still sitting in checks.
Very on brand for the powers that be to not respect/understand SpEd. teacher time/work load.
Feels like every year for the last decade tgey add two or three new sections to the IEP process but take nothing away. In a vacuum an extra meeting here, extra data there, extra tabs to complete here, etc. all seem manageable, but in the context of one person doing it all AND teaching?!
Untenable
12:41 here and ITA.
Anonymous
10/14/2024 13:25
Subject: Anyone been reimbursed yet from FCPS?
That and they seemed to hire multiple special staffers just to deal with sending out checks....that is their whole job and we did the math in this thread last year. There weren't even that many families requesting any amount of cash reimbursement.
Anonymous
10/14/2024 13:18
Subject: Anyone been reimbursed yet from FCPS?
Extremely funny to me how this was tossed in SpEd teachers laps in what might’ve been mid-late January with the explicit direction that everything needed to be done by last day of school… and years later Gatehouse still sitting in checks.
Very on brand for the powers that be to not respect/understand SpEd. teacher time/work load.
Feels like every year for the last decade tgey add two or three new sections to the IEP process but take nothing away. In a vacuum an extra meeting here, extra data there, extra tabs to complete here, etc. all seem manageable, but in the context of one person doing it all AND teaching?!
Untenable
Very on brand for the powers that be to not respect/understand SpEd. teacher time/work load.
Feels like every year for the last decade tgey add two or three new sections to the IEP process but take nothing away. In a vacuum an extra meeting here, extra data there, extra tabs to complete here, etc. all seem manageable, but in the context of one person doing it all AND teaching?!
Untenable
Anonymous
10/14/2024 13:16
Subject: Anyone been reimbursed yet from FCPS?
Anonymous wrote:So glad you bumped this up because i had meant to post when this happened.
They agreed to reimburse us $420.00 (these were all therapy copays as well). They sent us three separate checks in these amounts: $43.80, $160.00, and $19.42. DH wanted me to follow up with them on principal but I was over it. *None of these amounts make any sense given our copays were even amounts like $40.00).
They also lost our original receipts and contacted me a year later asking why I had never submitted receipts.
This is the most fcps thing ever. I would have emailed back just out of morbid curiosity
about the math.
Anonymous
10/14/2024 12:51
Subject: Anyone been reimbursed yet from FCPS?
So glad you bumped this up because i had meant to post when this happened.
They agreed to reimburse us $420.00 (these were all therapy copays as well). They sent us three separate checks in these amounts: $43.80, $160.00, and $19.42. DH wanted me to follow up with them on principal but I was over it. *None of these amounts make any sense given our copays were even amounts like $40.00).
They also lost our original receipts and contacted me a year later asking why I had never submitted receipts.
They agreed to reimburse us $420.00 (these were all therapy copays as well). They sent us three separate checks in these amounts: $43.80, $160.00, and $19.42. DH wanted me to follow up with them on principal but I was over it. *None of these amounts make any sense given our copays were even amounts like $40.00).
They also lost our original receipts and contacted me a year later asking why I had never submitted receipts.
Anonymous
10/14/2024 12:41
Subject: Anyone been reimbursed yet from FCPS?
Anonymous wrote:So that's three posters in a row who were sent less money then FCPS had agreed to pay them with no explanation.
Weird, b/c the legal process as explained to the teachers was not supposed to include Gatehouse second-guessing reimbursements. They were just supposed to be cutting checks for what we, the IEP team agreed, should be paid. I sat in on 14 meetings and not one family asked for anything absurd. Most of our reimbursements were not checks-they were extra sessions of speech therapy that were given over the summer. Two families had receipts for therapy copays and tutoring during Covid and we approved those as well.
Anonymous
10/14/2024 12:37
Subject: Anyone been reimbursed yet from FCPS?
Interesting that they said this: According to Adama Cahuantzi, the administrator in charge of COVID reimbursements, 97% of reimbursements have been delivered as of July 26.
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Who are the 3% and what has taken so long to get their reimbursements. We know they aren't all complicated cases b/c pp said she had very straightforward ST reimbursement.
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Who are the 3% and what has taken so long to get their reimbursements. We know they aren't all complicated cases b/c pp said she had very straightforward ST reimbursement.
Anonymous
10/14/2024 12:31
Subject: Anyone been reimbursed yet from FCPS?
Anonymous wrote:So the meetings were held in spring 2023 and they are still processing simple reimbursements in October 2024? That has to be way out of compliance with the settlement agreement.
At our IEP meeting, they said they were legally required to pay within 45 days and that was the reason for the rush in holding the meetings.
I guess Gatehouse employees considered that deadline flexible.
Anonymous
10/14/2024 12:30
Subject: Anyone been reimbursed yet from FCPS?
So that's three posters in a row who were sent less money then FCPS had agreed to pay them with no explanation.
Anonymous
10/14/2024 12:29
Subject: Anyone been reimbursed yet from FCPS?
Our check had the wrong amount too. We had agreed to something like $220 (therapy co-pays) and they send me a check for something like $75.34. The .34 was especially baffling b/c our copay was $20 a session. So where did the .34 come from?
When I emailed asking why the amount had changed, no one ever replied. So, I just gave up because it had already been time consuming with the meeting, and then I had to email several times, I had to send in our receipts twice because they lost the first set, etc.
When I emailed asking why the amount had changed, no one ever replied. So, I just gave up because it had already been time consuming with the meeting, and then I had to email several times, I had to send in our receipts twice because they lost the first set, etc.
Anonymous
10/14/2024 12:28
Subject: Anyone been reimbursed yet from FCPS?
our reimbursement was short around $200 but I decided it was not worth it to reach out (my time is worth more than that). It is amazing how incompetent FCPS is.Anonymous wrote:We received a check today, for the wrong amount. It was such a specifically incorrect amount down to the penny that I am wondering if we got someone else's reimbursement.
Debating whether to just be done with it or follow up. Its really appalling that it has taken so long and they sent me the wrong amount! There was no debate or controversy, very straightforward reimbursement (sessions of ST).
The check has an invoice date of June 2024. I have no idea what that means.
Anonymous
10/14/2024 12:05
Subject: Anyone been reimbursed yet from FCPS?
So the meetings were held in spring 2023 and they are still processing simple reimbursements in October 2024? That has to be way out of compliance with the settlement agreement.
Anonymous
10/14/2024 12:00
Subject: Anyone been reimbursed yet from FCPS?
We received a check today, for the wrong amount. It was such a specifically incorrect amount down to the penny that I am wondering if we got someone else's reimbursement.
Debating whether to just be done with it or follow up. Its really appalling that it has taken so long and they sent me the wrong amount! There was no debate or controversy, very straightforward reimbursement (sessions of ST).
The check has an invoice date of June 2024. I have no idea what that means.
Debating whether to just be done with it or follow up. Its really appalling that it has taken so long and they sent me the wrong amount! There was no debate or controversy, very straightforward reimbursement (sessions of ST).
The check has an invoice date of June 2024. I have no idea what that means.