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JUST A HINT ON BACK PAY !!!!! I got my first retired pay check on 1 JUNE 2010. I called and wrote letters to DFAS, but to no avail. No one could tell me anything about back pay. Finally on 7 AUG 10 after repeated calls and letters and absolutely no response on the back pay issue from DFAS, I...

You know I always thought the BCMR(s) where just phoning it in. I appealed to them once on several specific issues pertaining to my discharge. Not only did they not address any one of specific issues I raised, all I got was a bunch of boilerplate from what I suspected was the answer to someone...

My retired pay started this month (June 2010) I saw my first deposit hit the bank. QUESTION: Does anyone know who you talk to about back pay? I know it is DFAS Indianapolis (I think it is anyway) but no one at DFAS Cleveland knows or can check on any status to make sure that it is in the...

Funny story. I Live in Kissimmee, Florida near Orlando. All the RAPIDS clerks at the reserve center are civilians. My wife and I called ahead, brought the documents they told me to bring, and then they told us that we forgot a document (that is why I called ahead) we waited 3 hours to find that...

Update Tuesday 18 May 2010. Well I will try to give a review update of my case up to now. I was originally discharged from the Army in June 2002 with a 10% rating and transferred back to the National Guard. I elected to take my reserve retirement and the Guard retired me on 31 DEC 2002. I...

Unfortunately as off about 60 days ago, IPERMS now requires a CAC (Common Access Card) to log on. You used to be able to get to it via AKO and following the link. I updated a lot of my personnel file in the last year, the Army seemed to be missing quite a few of my documents (DD-214s, etc.). But...

HERE WE GO AGAIN! Well a quick review. I was discharged on 24 June 2002 with 10% disability and discharged from Active Duty and returned to the Florida Army National Guard. I refused severance pay and instead opted for transfer to the USAR- Retired control group awaiting my retired reserve...

Kevin, Thanks for the advice I will do that. I knew they must have a method for doing that, I just could not find it on the VA web site. Mike, The PDBR updating DEERs in the manner you stated would work just as you indicated, my only question is if those knuckle heads had the...

Congratulations!!!!!! I just got a call from a nice lady from the National Guard Bureau this morning who is trying to get my orders cut by Fort Bliss. Seems my being in the USAR retired control group (awaiting pay at age 60) and having previously been in the National Guard and not having...

Mike, To tell you the truth I don't know. No one in all the various agencies / people I have worked with can tell me. I believe my retirement orders will be retroactive to June 2002 (PDBR Memo says it should). However DFAS threatens to impose a six year statute of limitations on my back pay...

Well add 2 weeks to the processing time. ALL of Washington DC was off ALL last week due to snow, and this week (today) is President's day, so off again. If you where waiting on any kind of board action or DOD action (or inaction) by the time they get back to work and organized, they wont be...

Looks like you and I have been on the same path lately. I called HRC and they aimed me at the lady in Alexandria, VA. I got a hold and she at first tried to aim me back at HRC St. Louis. WARNING: I am in a different category then most of you out there. I did not take severance pay. I elected...

Jason and Carnelli, Thanks for the input. I also looked up a case in the ABCMR database and found one where DFAS tried to limit a soldier's back retired pay to six years. He appealed to the ABCMR and they actually granted him relief. I guess in a nutshell he had to prove to the ABCMR...

"Title 31, U.S. Code, section 3702, also known as the barring statute, prohibits the payment of a claim against the Government unless the claim has been received by the Comptroller General within 6 years after the claim accrues. " DFAS seems to think this law "MAY" apply to me. My original...

In that case :-) Mailed original application 7 April, Arrived at the board in Washington 7 July, Approved by board 30 July and forwarded to Army Review Boards Agency where, undersecretary for personnel approved it on 30 September. On 24 October I received a packet with the PDBR board...