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Employers
Welcome to the employer section of the National Center on Service Obligations (NCSO) Web site. This section of the Web site is designed for employers with an employee who accepted a scholarship from a grant awarded to an Institution of Higher Education by the Department of Education's Office of Special Education Programs' Personnel Development Program in 2005 and any year thereafter. These scholarships require a service obligation commitment of two years of eligible employment for each year of financial support. NCSO is responsible for tracking service obligations, and the scholars/obligees are required annually to report their employment status to NCSO. Students are referred to as scholars while still enrolled in their training programs and referred to as obligees once they have exited/completed their training programs. This Web site provides answers to Frequently Asked Questions about service obligation regulations/requirements and a portal to NCSO's Service Obligation Tracking System (SOTS), a secure, online database used to collect scholars/obligees contact and service obligation information for tracking the fulfillment of service obligations.
NCSO will send employers an e-mail when the scholars/obligees have uploaded their employment information into the NCSO SOTS, indicating a current or past employment position with the organization. It is the employers' responsibility to log in to the SOTS using a secure URL which will be included in the e-mail. The secure URL will direct employers to the employment record to be verified. If the information provided by the scholar/obligee is accurate, employers will simply click "verify" and submit their response. If employers disagree with the information provided by the scholar/obligee, they can submit additional information. Employers will be requested by e-mail to verify current employment information once a year. NCSO anticipates that the verification process will take no longer than 10 minutes.
