Guard Soldiers Deployed in Trump's LA Crackdown Aren't Getting Paid Yet

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4. They wouldn't have gotten paid before the 1st

They probably wouldn’t have gotten paid before the 1st of July with or without orders and here’s why. When reservists or guardsmen get called up there is a “pay cut” date in the pay system, it’s 10 days before the next pay date which is either the 1st or 15th of the month.

Basically say a guardsman gets called up on the 8th of the month, well the paycut date was the 5th for the 15th of the month paycheck. So the earliest paycheck they could get would be the one on the 1st of the next month because the paycut date for that would be on the 20th or 21st.

When I supervised reservists it was usually an inconvenience getting their pay started depending on what day their orders started. Everyone just assumes that it start on the next paydate but that’s only true if the order to start their pay was entered prior to the paycut date for the next pay date.

So glad I’m retired lol.