I know you all cannot do anything about this, and I have asked our council to put in a ticket to member care already, but I wanted to post here so others can be aware that this might be happening in their area.
Our council has been on a calendar year (Jan 1 - Dec 31) charter, but now under this new system we have units forming during at different times during the year, so they have different charter periods. When scouts/scouters transfer to these units, it is changing their membership end date to the end date of the unit. In some cases, that cuts months off their membership, and in others it is extending their membership.
We first saw this with a new pack that formed Oct 2023 with a charter end of 9/30/2024. Several scouts from neighboring packs with charter end date and membership end dates of 12/31/2024 transferred into this pack in the spring and had their membership end date changed to 9/30/2024 (same date as the charter end of the pack they joined). They have now dropped off the pack roster while we wait for our council and member care/IT to get this sorted out. They all had 3 months cut off their 12 month membership.
In the latest case, we had a new pack form in August 2024, with a charter end date of 7/31/2025. Scouts from a neighboring pack with a charter end and membership end date on 12/31/2024 had their membership end date change to the charter end date of 7/31/2025, giving them a free 7 month membership extension.
