Excess terminal leave, $1500

[Gatorfan44]

Wanted to post my story to get opinions, but also a warning to others.

Retired a little over two years ago, prior to starting terminal leave, sat down with admin and verified exact dates (how much leave I could take, when to start terminal, etc.). Everything was preapproved to the exact day, was signed by CO, started terminal and retired. Two years later, I get a letter in the mail from DFAS saying that I took 0.5 excess days of term leave and I owe them $1500. I called DFAS and was told there’s nothing they could do that I had to get it corrected With my previous unit. Called my previous unit was told nothing I could do about it. Ended up having to pay the money. Make sure all your dates are accurate or you’ll get a bill. I guess I should’ve been more careful in verifying the dates.

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[militaryPHYS]

Holy cow! Sorry to hear that. Also, 1500 bucks for a half day?? I wish the military paid us that much. How does that math even work out.

 

[pgg]

Bummer. I found that the manner and accuracy in which leave was charged varied a lot based on my unit. I had one duty station insist that leave that ended on a Friday or started on a Monday had to have the weekend added as charged leave too, which was frustrating.

I will say that when I retired the personnel dept and DFAS were straight up perfect in everything. They did the math right, they did it on time, and they even got my retirement pay correct on day 1 - and that was with the added wrinkle of USUHS time credits added to the multiplier.

After an overpay, repay, re-overpay issue the year before that was never fixed, I was pleasantly surprised. 🙂

DFAS usually gets it right in the end though.

 

[Gatorfan44]

Holy cow! Sorry to hear that. Also, 1500 bucks for a half day?? I wish the military paid us that much. How does that math even work out.

No one could give me that answer. Half-day pay is not even close to $1500 but after multiple tries, I couldn’t get anyone on the phone that could answer that question.

 

[DrMetal]

- and that was with the added wrinkle of USUHS time credits added to the multiplier.

How did you get this right on your DD214, what do they modify?

 

[pgg]

How did you get this right on your DD214, what do they modify?

In section 18 remarks they put:

SERIAL NUMBER: ________;TRANSACTION CODE: A;EFFECTIVE DATE OF RETIREMENT: 01 JUN 2022.;CDR ____ ATTENDED UNIFORMED SERVICES UNIVERSITY OF THE HEALTH SCIENCES (USUHS) FROM _______ TO ______. SERVICE NOT CREDITABLE FOR ANY PURPOSE IN COMMISSIONED OFFICER STATUS.;


I was dubious but that was all it took, apparently.