Hot! Application Deadline For Stop Loss Compensation Approaching

Application deadline to get Stop Loss pay out approaching

Posted 10/14/2011 Updated 10/14/2011 Email story

by Eric M. Grill Air Force Personnel, Service and Manpower Public Affairs

10/14/2011 -RANDOLPH AIR FORCE BASE, Texas (AFNS)The Oct. 21 contract to be able to sign up for Retroactive Stop Loss Special Pay will be rapid approaching.

Airmen exactly who were involuntarily used on lively duty somewhere between Sept. 11, 2001, and also Sept. 30, 2004, could possibly be eligible with the special pay pay out of $500 pertaining to every month these were affected.

The 2009 War Supplemental Appropriation Act set aside $534.4 million to the retroactive stop-loss exclusive pay out pay out authority. Officials mentioned Sept. 1 simply $219 million has become compensated hence far.

Eligibility includes active, retired plus past servicemembers along with people of the book ingredient who put on your plate with energetic work while their enlistment and also period involving obligated assistance ended up being involuntarily extended, or even whose eligibility intended for split or maybe old age had been suspended therefore of Stop Loss .

More than 8,220 latest plus past Airmen are already sanctioned intended for retroactive stop-loss unique pay out since Air Force Personnel Center officers here initiated agreeing to boasts within 2009, authorities said.

Claims will be examined with traditional files as well as many boosting certificate that the particular customer may possibly submit, reported Capt. Rose Englebert, fundamental belonging to the AFPC Separations Branch.

"The more info the particular person provides, the better," your woman said.

Air Force administrators employed stop-loss pertaining to Operation Enduring Freedom around 2001 as well as 2002 and Operation Iraqi Freedom around 2003. The contract that will apply, initially set regarding October 2010, was prolonged allowing to get more people today affected to be able to sign up for the particular retroactive pay. To report a new claim, a candidate associates or perhaps by law specified beneficiaries may well obtain a new stop-loss claim software at .

"If you are dubious as for you to if or not that you're eligible, you have nothing at all to get rid of by applying," Englebert said.

For details about this, along with other people issues, pay a visit to the particular Air Force Personnel Services website at .