Stop-loss pay starts flowing in December

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Stop-loss pay starts flowing in December
By Jeff Schogol, Stars and Stripes
Mideast edition, Wednesday, December 9, 2009

ARLINGTON, Va. — After weeks of uncertainty, the Defense Finance and Accounting Service will start issuing retroactive stop-loss payments on Dec. 16, officials said.

But most people who have applied for the money should not expect to get paid by Christmas.

The Army estimates about 120,000 people are eligible for $500 for every month they were held beyond their initial end of service between September 2001 and September 2008. Initially, the Army only sent 284 applications to DFAS for payment, expecting to send thousands more after the first ones were paid.

Now the Army will send bundles of applications to DFAS every week, with DFAS expected to have about 1,000 applications by Wednesday, said Army spokeswoman Jill Mueller.

"As many as we have done, we will send," Mueller said in an e-mail on Monday.


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