This is an update for this post about the Texas Guaranteed Tuition Plan, wherein the board of said plan decided to screw over all plan participants by negating our contract with them & changing all the tenets of the plan that caused us to agree to it in the first place.
Ahem. So we wrote our state congresspeople and got a nice response from our Rep Patricia Harless, and a condescending form letter explaining what the TGTP is from our Sen Dan Patrick.
My husband wrote back to Senator Patrick and said, “why are you writing back to explain the plan to me? I know what the plan is; I’ve been a member for 8 years. Maybe you should read my original letter!” Well, he was his usual charming and political self, but that was the gist of it.
Senator Patrick apparently got lots of letters like this, because he got on the stick and wrote his OWN letter to the state comptroller complaining about the tuition board.
So now Ms. Harless and Mr. Patrick are in a tie for Who Tried to Do Something About This. We’ll continue to wait and see if the problem gets fixed.
I guess they have by November 30. That’s the deadline for cancelling our contract. Apparently the comptroller was able to change that date all by herself, so it is the comptroller – Susan Combs - who is responsible for this. Good to know. She is an elected official, and she is currently working on getting re-elected. She is also not looking personally at any inquiries regarding changes to the tuition plan, according to her site. Even though she oversees it. Does this mean there aren’t enough angry plan holders to prevent her from being re-elected?
Just for interest’s sake I logged in to see what our estimated refund would be. Her account is currently worth less than we have paid into it. So now matter what we do, we will LOSE money on this deal.
HOW INTERESTING. I wonder who’s running against her?
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