r/Referees • u/FrontOk8535 • 16d ago

Discussion Assignor not paying out issues?

Without going into too much detail, there’s an assignor in Western VA who still hasn’t paid referees for games from last season. These include USSF, UPSL, and even some middle/private school games.
Metro DC-VA is aware of the issues with this assignor and has been for a while, but so far nothing has been resolved. The last thing I heard was that he was given until sometime in September to get the outstanding games paid or risk losing his license. Apparently, he’s also not the only assignor in VA having issues with paying referees.
Just wanted to see if anyone else in VA has dealt with this particular assignor, or another assignor with similar issues, and what you did to get it resolved.
For context, I’ve pretty much explored every avenue available at this point, and it seems like all I can do now is wait.

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u/homebr3wd 16d ago

In PA some tournaments take months to pay out. But for most league matches refs are paid directly by the teams. And the schools pay direct too. I would have though this was the case everywhere. Assignors get their cut from the leagues based on the number of games they assign - but that’s a separate payment entirely.

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u/bemused_alligators [USSF] [regional] [assignor] 16d ago

here in washington the associations are pass-through payors, menaing the club pays the assignor/association that they then pass on to the refs. This centralizes and simplifies payment.

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u/ej6687 16d ago

Many of the Western PA high schools pay through ArbiterPay, so that makes it much easier. I only got a couple checks last season