Still got questions on retroactive stop-loss pay?
Published: July 27, 2010
Gang – The last time I wrote about stop-loss pay, people were still having problems with the Army’s program. Knowing that it’s such a hot-button issue,
I’m asking for your questions BEFORE I talk to officials. One of those will be Army Maj. Roy Whitley, who is in charge of the Army’s compensation program. Whitley has been oft quoted in my blogs, so Wednesday’s roundtable will be the stop-loss equivalent of a Beatles reunion.
As a reminder, servicemembers held under stop-loss between September 2001 and September 2008 are eligible for $500 for each month they were kept beyond their initial separation date.
In March, the Army started direct mailings to half of the 100,000 or so people eligible for compensation who had yet to apply. We’ll ask Whitley how many still haven’t applied with less than three months to go before the Oct. 21 end of the program.
We’ll also talk to Lernes “Bear” Herbert, acting director of Officer and Enlisted Personnel Management, in case former servicemembers from the other military branches have questions you’d like answered.
We are interested in headaches as well as success stories that could help other servicemembers.
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