When a mid-month or end-of-month pay is returned from the financial institution to the DFAS Disbursing Office due to an invalid account number, DFAS will issue a credit for the payment which should appear on your LES the following month. In some instances, once the credit is issued, you may go to your servicing finance office and request a Casual Pay for those funds. If the payment is not made by the local office, the credited pay will be sent along with the next scheduled payment.

When an allotment is returned from the financial institution to the DFAS Disbursing Office due to an invalid account number, DFAS will issue a credit for the allotment, which should appear on your LES the following month. You are responsible for ensuring that the input to stop or change the allotment is made. In some instances, once the credit is issued, you may go to your servicing finance office and request a Casual Pay for those funds.

Allotments are only disbursed once a month. The system withholds half of the allotment amount from the mid-month pay. This amount is held by the system until the second half is withheld from the end-of-month pay. The full amount of the allotment will disburse to the designated account on the 1st of every month. Allotments will never disburse on the 15th of the month.

Example: If you start an allotment for $400, the system will take $200 from your mid-month pay and hold it until the other $200 is taken out of your end-of-month pay. The total $400 will disburse to the designated account on the 1st of the following month.

The initial payment of your Selective Re-enlistment Bonus (SRB) should take no longer than 30 days from the date of re-enlistment. If, after 30 days, you have not received your payment, you should contact your servicing finance officer, career planner, or admin or personnel office.

 

NAVY MEMBERS: You should receive your bonus installment payment on Oct. 1, which is the first day of the federal fiscal year.

 

The Service Enlistment Bonus (SEB) is paid upon completion of training and may be paid in a single lump sum (USMC) or in periodic installments.

Army and Air Force (Active) Service Members:  Your last 12 LES's are available on myPay.  Copies of an LES greater than one year old should be requested from your servicing finance office.

Army, Air Force (Reserve and Guard) Service Members:  Your last three LES's are available on myPay. Copies of an LES greater than three months old should be requested from your servicing finance office.

Separated Army and Air Force Service Members:  Your last 12 LES's will remain available until they have cycled off through normal monthly updates. For a LES greater than one year old , you must send your request to the Military Pay Historical Records Branch and you must provide a photo copy of government issued identification (i.e. your military identification card, driver's license), name, social security number, Branch of Service, component, period of LES being requested, reason for request, phone number, e-mail address, and mailing address. All requests must be signed. If they are not signed, they cannot be processed.  Signed requests should be sent as an e-mail attachment to: AMPO-VERIFY-LES@DFAS.MIL. Or Fax your request to 317-275-0123.

Navy (Active) Service Members: Your last 12 LES's are available on myPay. For copies of an LES greater than one year old, call 888-332-74112 and choose option #2. To send your request via e-mail, please click on the askDFAS icon located on the left-hand column of the www.dfas.mil home page. 

Navy (Reserve) Service Members: Your last three LES's are available on myPay. For copies of an LES greater than three months old, call 888-332-74112 and choose option #2. To send your request via e-mail, click on the askDFAS icon located on the left hand column of the www.dfas.mil home page.

USMC (Active and Reserve) Service Members: Your last 12 LES's are available on myPay. For copies of an LES more than one year old, send an e-mail to CCL-MC-RECORD-SERVICES@DFAS.MIL or fax your request to 216-367-3606.
 

In keeping with government streamlining efforts and to reduce the use of paper, myPay takes advantage of existing technology and is paperless; therefore, you will not receive any written confirmation. However, myPay does display a "NO LATER THAN" date before and after your change is accepted. Any change you make to your account should be posted no later than this date. You must receive this notification message to ensure that your action has been accepted. If your change does not appear on your account by the date indicated, contact your customer service representative. If you have a registered e-mail address, an e-mail notification will be sent when the transaction is sent to your pay system for processing.

In order to make a state change, you will need to fill out a form DD-2058. Please submit your change through your pay office or admin office for processing. Changes to your state of legal residence may not be made retroactively.

Your temporary password will be established and is available to use two complete business days after you fax the requested information to the myPay Customer Care Center.

You will be able to view deposits on your Savings Deposit Program (SDP) Statement in myPay as soon as payment is received by DFAS. Deposits by allotment will post at the end of each month the allotment is open. Cash deposits made within theatre could take longer.

Once your pay account has been established by your payroll office and your first system generated payment has been issued, your myPay account is established and you will automatically be sent a temporary Password. Generally, it will be four weeks from the time you receive your first paycheck to when you receive your temporary Password in the mail. Once you receive your new Password, you must customize it within 45 days. If you do not customize the Password it will expire and you will have to request a new one.

 

Upon initial log on, use your full SSN and the temporary Password provided to you. The system will prompt you to customize your Login ID and Password. If you have any inquiries or need to make pay changes prior to your myPay account being established, you must contact your servicing payroll office or Customer Service Representative.

Active duty members are paid twice a month. Pay days are the fifteenth of the month and the first of the following month. The fifteenth is the mid-month pay and includes pay due from the 1st through the 15th of the month. The first of the following month is the end of month pay and includes pay due from the 16th through the last day of the previous month. If the 1st or the 15th is on a weekend/holiday, payday is the business day before.

Members have the option to request an additional amount to be withheld for federal/state taxes. The amount you input on myPay is the amount withheld per pay period. Please keep in mind the pay period schedule for your pay system when choosing your additional amount to be withheld. All requests for changes to tax withholding are effective the first day of the month following your input in myPay.

 

Active Duty military have a monthly pay period. Half of the amount input for additional taxes will be withheld from mid-month pay and half from end-of-month pay.

 

For Reserve military, a pay period is one drill or one full day of active duty performed. Therefore, the amount input is withheld per drill or per active duty day. Example: A typical drill weekend consists of four drills. If you enter $5, then $20 will be withheld from your pay for that weekend.

Debts are posted and deducted within a three month cycle:

• The 1st month: The debt will be displayed as a negative number in the Entitlements column
• The 2nd month: The debt will be annotated in the Remarks section. If a payment plan is not set up with your pay office, the debt will be automatically collected from your pay during the 3rd month.
• The 3rd month: The debt will be displayed as a deduction from your pay.
• For USMC members: Debts will appear in the deductions section on the LES. However, if it is a delayed debt, the debt is posted and deducted within a two month cycle:
  • The 1st month: The debt is displayed within the comments section at the bottom of the LES.
  • The 2nd month: The debt will be displayed as a deduction from your pay.

A maximum of 25 percent of your disposable pay can be garnished for a commercial debt. Disposable pay is defined as gross pay minus authorized deductions. Authorized deductions include, but are not limited to, applicable federal, state and local taxes, health insurance premiums, normal life insurance premiums, normal retirement contributions, including contributions to TSP, and debts owed the United States.