Posted on 11/22/2021 7:37:19 AM PST by UMCRevMom@aol.com
Some U.S. Navy sailors have been forced to take out loans after being shorted on pay, reports Military.com.
The sailors earned increases in housing allowances after getting married or relocating somewhere where the cost of living is higher. The loans are meant to help these service members make ends meet.
Navy-Marine Corps Relief Society Vice President Gillian Gonzalez in an interview with Military.com said the issue is happening everywhere, and that geography does not have much to do with it. He also said the group has seen an increase in loan applications from sailors but did not have an exact number regarding what the increase was.
Cmdr. Matt Knight, public affairs officer at Navy Personnel Command, said the Defense Department requires the Navy to process Basic Allowance for Housing change requests within 30 days, although delays still occur.
"Navy Personnel Command and our subordinate commands take every measure to ensure the volume of transactions does not exceed our capacity, but occasionally backlogs do occur due to a variety of reasons," he told Military.com.
"These backlogs are resolved as quickly as possible to limit the impacts to sailors."
Gonzalez said one sailor had not been paid in three months due to an enlistment extension and pay error, forcing the sailor to use up savings. Others have spoken out about these issues on social media.
Military.com also reported that a personnel specialist first class who asked not to be identified since he is not authorized to speak with the press said the underlying issue "lies in the consolidation of personnel support and customer support detachments that began in 2017 and appears to be understaffed."
He added that "shutting down dozens of processing centers took that transaction load and dropped it in one building’s worth of people."
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How about we ask the feds for the same money to each individual up here
Were not quota people white ain’t right in their mind to hard to control.
BS !!! ENOUGH OF THIS CARP, PAY OUR PERSONNEL NOW !!!
They put their lives on the ready for Us and there’s NO EXCUSE for this to be happening !!!
I remember this carp happening when I was on active duty during the Carter ‘administration’, circa 1980...let’s go joe
Saw this all of the time in Little Jimmy Carters regime.
The folks overseas were really hard hit and took out loans just to feed thier family...and nobody in CONgress gave a shit.
Everything old is new again. I have stopped recommending any one join the military today. Nobody should have to be an underpaid mercenary....
In 1970, while in Vietnam, a Viet Cong mortar crew took out our admin hut and all our pay records went up in smoke. It took the Navy 5-1/2 months before they started paying us again.
In my experience, this is not unusual. Not good, but not unusual.
I went for almost all of 1990 with incorrect pay.
Had a Navy pay issue only once - after six months trying to fix it called my Senator. It was resolved in three days.
My USAF pay issue lasted nearly a year. It got settled when my wife wrote a very nasty letter to a 4-star.
I got my pay and a VERY crappy assignment out of it.
If I were China, I would make sure this happens
“How about we ask the feds for the same money to each individual up here”
This money would be considered a grant and is taxable. It’s cheaper to take the money, become a Mexican citizen. The current tax rate of the US for those who make plus $600K a year is right at the same for US living in Mexico at between 30 to 37%. But with the cost of living so much lower, you can easily cover that.
wy69
Ping.
Funny thing, though, if they make a pay error IN YOUR FAVOR, they’ll be sure to claw it back within seconds of figuring it out!
I hadn’t even begun to seriously piss off anybody that mattered by that point. Later on I delighted in getting threatening phone calls from O-6 weenies who got to go home every night.
Go on bases now, see the E-3 with 20 year old wife and two kids. Still barely surviving on MilPay and you cannot imagine the crap that goes on with babies married to babies. Checkout JVille Girls Call Me Maybe on YouTube. They are referring to JVille NC outside Camp Lejeune. Nothing has changed!
It’s cheaper to take the money, become a Mexican citizen.
got taco’s ?
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