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GENERAL INTRAMURAL LRP ELIGIBILITY REQUIREMENTS
All eligible individuals, including women, individuals from underrepresented groups, and persons with disabilities, are encouraged to apply for loan repayment. The general eligibility criteria applicable to all Intramural LRPs are listed below.
CHECK THAT YOU AND YOUR RESEARCH QUALIFY FOR THE INTRAMURAL LRPs
To be eligible for participation in the extramural LRPs, you must meet these criteria:
- Citizenship - you must be a U.S. citizen, U.S. national, or permanent resident of the U.S.
- Doctoral Degree - you must have a health professional doctoral degree ( Ph.D., M.D., D.O., D.D.S., D.M.D., Pharm.D., or equivalent doctoral level degree; or a P.A., B.S.N., or A.D.N. degree from an accredited institution with the following exception:
- Applicants with a doctorate of veterinary medicine [D.V.M.] are eligible for all intramural LRPs except the Clinical Research LRP for Individuals from Disadvantaged Background unless they also hold one of the degrees listed above.
- Employment -you must be employed by or have a firm commitment of employment from an authorized official of the NIH. (Please be advised that IRTA and CRTA fellows are “trainees” and not considered NIH FTE employees and are not eligible for LRP benefits.)
- Qualified Educational Debt -you must have qualifying educational debt in excess of 20 percent of their annual NIH base salary on the expected date of program eligibility. The expected date of program eligibility is the date by which
- (a) an applicant begins a qualified research assignment (see below) as an NIH employee and
- (b) the Secretary executes his or her LRP contract. The applicant must have a formal appointment in the NIH intramural research program. See additional information about Intramural Research Eligibility Determination.
- Qualified Research Assignments -you must be appointed at the NIH in a qualified research area.
- For the AIDS and CR LRPs, qualified research assignments must involve AIDS or clinical research (see Appendix III) and be approved by the Loan Repayment Committee (LRC) (see Application Process). In support of the objectives of these LRPs, if applicable, an individual who is already employed by the NIH and applies to these LRPs must demonstrate his/her ability and intention to transfer from a non-qualified to a qualified AIDS or clinical research assignment.
- Unlike the AIDS and CR LRPs, the General LRP is not targeted toward a specific area (e.g., AIDS) or type (e.g., clinical) of research. Rather, the focus is on attracting and retaining highly talented investigators to pursue biomedical research studies and investigations in a variety of scientific disciplines. Generally, this LRP is used to attract or retain more senior researchers rather than trainees. For the General LRP, a "qualified research assignment" is one that is approved by the LRC (see Application Process) based on the nature of the proposed research and its relationship to the mission and priorities of the NIH.
INELIGIBLE INDIVIDUALS
The following individuals are ineligible for participation in any of NIH's LRPs:
- Persons who are not United States citizens, nationals, or permanent residents.
- Any individual who has a federal judgment lien against his/her property arising from a federal debt is precluded from receiving federal funds until the judgment is paid in full or satisfied. LRP applicants must certify that they do not have a judgment lien against their property arising from a debt to the United States.
- Any individual who owes an obligation of health professional service to the federal government, a state, or other entity, unless deferrals are granted for the length of their LRP service obligation. The following are examples of programs with service obligations which disqualify an applicant from consideration:
- Physicians Shortage Area Scholarship Program
- National Research Service Award Program
- Public Health Service Scholarship Program
- National Health Service Corps Scholarship Program
- Primary Care Loan Program
- Armed Forces (Army, Navy, or Air Force) Professions Scholarship Program
- Indian Health Service Scholarship Program
- Individuals who are not considered NIH employees, such as the following examples:
- You are not eligible to apply for either a new or renewal LRP contract if:
- You breached your prior LRP contract
- You received notice that your prior LRP contract had been overpaid and that you must remit funds to NIH to resolve the overpayment, but still owe these funds
- You had terminated a prior LRP contract that would have ended after the begin date of the contracts in the current application cycle
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