mattman5500 asked:
I recently joined the navy, I took the job of NAT-IS, which is an Intelligence Specialist. The job requires me to have a top secret security clearance, I have no felonies, prior arrests, or tickets, But I do have about $4,000.00 of credit card debt. So does this automatically exclude me from the security clearance.
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I recently joined the navy, I took the job of NAT-IS, which is an Intelligence Specialist. The job requires me to have a top secret security clearance, I have no felonies, prior arrests, or tickets, But I do have about $4,000.00 of credit card debt. So does this automatically exclude me from the security clearance.
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If you have a payment plan and are paying off the debt on a regular basis, it should be OK.
No. 4 grand is not a lot of debt. You’ll be fine.
Amounts of money that you may owe have nothing to do with security clearance. What government agencies look for is evidence that you might be recruited to help foreign agents, such as membership in groups which oppose the United States government, vulnerabilities such as close family members who live in foreign countries, or a history of suspicious behaviors, such as supporting a subversive organization. If you owed hundreds of thousands of dollars so that your debt could be used as leverage to get you to reveal secrets, then there might be a problem, but a $4,000 debt is chicken feed. You are unlikely to have a problem.
NO it does not automatically exclude you from getting a Top Secret clearance, however, under the regulations governing a SSBI (Single Scope Background Investigation), ” an interim clearance may be denied (although the final clearance may still be granted) “for having a large amount of debt or for having admitted to seeing a doctor for mental health reasons”. The language of the rule does not specify or define just what “a large amount” is.