DIMHRS
Have you heard about DIMHRS,
the Defense Integrated Military Human Resources System? Scheduled
for implementation Army-wide March 1, 2009, DIMHRS will be the
military member's "one-stop shop" for personnel and military pay.
Every member will be a user in DIMHRS. Click
here to learn more about DIMHRS.
Marine Corps Wounded Warrior Regiment
(WWR)
The Marine Corps Wounded Warrior Regiment (WWR) is on a
mission. That mission is to "provide and facilitate assistance to
wounded/ill/injured Marines, Sailors attached to or in support of
in support of Marine units, and their family members, throughout
the phases of recovery in order to assist in rehabilitation and
transition." To learn more,
click here
to see the third in
our continuing series on the services' Wounded Warrior
programs.
New Pay
and Allowance Continuation (PAC) Program Replaces Combat-related Injury
Rehabilitation Pay (CIP)
The new Pay and Allowance Continuation (PAC)
Program, authorized by the 2008 National Defense Authorization Act,
offers many improvements over the Combat-related Injury
Rehabilitation Pay (CIP) that it replaces. For more
information, click
here.
Disability Severance Pay
The method for computing
disability severance pay has changed. To learn more,
click here.
Servicemembers' Group Life
Insurance (SGLI) premium rate decrease.
SGLI premium rates are going
down! For more information, click
here.
Automatic refunds of Savings
Deposit Program (SDP) accounts
In accordance with the
Office of the Under Secretary of Defense (Comptroller) memorandum dated April 16, 2008,
entitled Automatic Refunds of Savings Deposit Program (SDP)
Accounts, the Defense Finance and Accounting Service (DFAS) is
authorized to transfer the balance of any dormant SDP account to
the members' financial institution on record 120 days after the
qualifying duty assignment terminates. Click
here to learn more about automatic refunds of SDP
accounts.
Do you know your
entitlements?
1. Effective September 1,
2007, the monthly stipend for the F. Edward Hebert Armed Forces
Health Professions Scholarship/Financial Assistance Program
(AFHPSP/FAP) participants increased from $1,349 per month to
$1,605. The annual grant for FAP participants remained at $28,454.
What will be the amounts paid for the FY08-09 school year effective
July 1, 2008? For the answer,
click here.
2. What program
provides income replacement for Reserve component members
experiencing extended and frequent mobilization for active duty
service? For the answer,
click here.
NEW NEWSLETTER
FEATURE:
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entire June 2008 Military Pay Newsletter in .pdf format,
click here
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