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Retroactive stop-loss payments $500/month 2001-09-11 through 2009-09-30

by Geoff | Sat, 10/24/2009 - 1:55pm

U.S. Department of Defense
Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense (Public Affairs)
News Release
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IMMEDIATE RELEASE No. 820-09
October 21, 2009
DoD To Implement Retroactive Stop Loss Special Pay

The Defense Department announced today the services’ implementation
plans to provide retroactive stop loss special pay. Active, reserve
and former service members who had their enlistment extended or
retirement suspended due to stop loss are eligible for this special
pay, if they served on active duty between Sept. 11, 2001 and Sept.
30, 2009.

Service members may begin submitting their claim for retroactive stop
loss special pay on Oct. 21, 2009. In accordance with the 2009
Supplemental Appropriations Act, all applications must be submitted to
the respective services no later than Oct. 21, 2010. Eligible
personnel will receive a payment of $500 per month for each month (or
any portion of a month) that a member was retained on active duty due
to stop loss. Applicants for retroactive pay who are no longer in the
military had to be honorably discharged, and for those who were stop
lossed in fiscal 2009, may only receive payment from one stop loss
authority – either the money appropriated for stop loss special pay in
the Duncan Hunter National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year
2009, or the money allocated for retroactive stop loss special pay in
the 2009 Supplemental Appropriations Act, but not both.

Service members must provide documented proof they were stop lossed
with their claim. Family members of deceased service members should
contact the appropriate military service for assistance in filing
their claim.

Information on how to contact each of the services is listed below:

Army: Go to https://www.stoplosspay.army.mil or email RetroStopLossPay@CONUS.Army.Mil

Navy: Email NXAG_N132C@navy.mil

Marine Corps: Go to https://www.manpower.usmc.mil/stoploss or email stoploss@usmc.mil

Air Force: Go to http://www.afpc.randolph.af.mil/stoploss/

Stop loss provides a valuable and critical tool to quickly retain and
generate forces to surge in a major conflict. However, as deployment
schedules stabilize, the department must then adapt and minimize its
use of stop loss. The secretary of defense announced in March a
comprehensive plan to eliminate the current use of stop loss, while
retaining the authority for future use under extraordinary
circumstances.

U.S. Department of Defense
Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense (Public Affairs)
News Release

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