Get used to it. It’s part of the “independent” thing. I was full time with USIS for 6 years then due to family medical reasons had to go the IC route. I am retired from the Army so didn’t need medical and had additional income. I paid for drug screens, PIV trips and all of the above. It worked out well for me. In 2014 when USIS went under and KGS hired a bunch of us it was disappointing. The reimbursements for ESI’s, sources, records were below what USIS paid. Then the T3 questions 1-29 that developed many more issues present than the trigger that sent you there. These became marathon ESI’s and that was all they were assigning, or making available. Then to put more pain on the wound they began requiring you to form an LLC thus shifting any liability off of them. In my situation this resulted in a 6 percent cut in pay as now I was required to pay the state 6 percent business tax. I reside in a state with no personal income tax, so this was literally a cut in pay. At 60 years old I hung it up after 16 years in the field, I still enjoyed the work when reasonable, but was working for less and less.
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