Services have given out or OK'd $28M in post allowance back pay

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Services have given out or OK'd $28M in post allowance back pay
By Sandra Jontz, Stars and Stripes
European edition, Thursday, November 27, 2008

Five nonappropriated fund employers have shelled out or approved more than $28 million in back pay to employees who were not paid post allowances for years.

Through the month of October, the employers — the Air Force, the Marine Corps, the Navy’s Installation Command, the Army and Air Force Exchange Service, and the Navy Exchange Service Command — have received 3,110 post allowance claims, and processed and paid slightly more than half of them, according to Defense Department spokesman Lt. Col. Les Melnyk.

Of the five, the Air Force is the sole employer that has yet to pay on already-approved claims. The Air Force has received 642 claims and processed and approved 397 of them, according to a DOD-supplied data spreadsheet.

Air Force officials did not respond to questions Wednesday explaining why some approved claims have not been paid.

As first reported in Stars and Stripes, for more than a dozen years, those five employers had been in at least partial violation of a Defense Department rule requiring that the cost-of-living allowance be paid to all American citizens working regular full-time jobs overseas.


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