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A yup, Jim/Manitou; contractors, outsourcing, once heard many hands make light work, hrumpf, my concern too many cooks spoil the batter! Ok, meanwhile, I got a good feeling its gonna work out best as possible for each of us.

Celebrating Jim again, doing the Hokey Pokey! Hope you have applied and get all your state benefits as possible. Always good to get licenses, auto&fishing, tax benefits, or any support possible. Speaking of taxes, retro in '07 causes a bit of adjustment to pay, less taxes monthly that is! yay. best t'ya! cg

Kind of interesting how contractors have taken over so many of the jobs previously done by soldiers or civil service employees--at least in the Army. With regard to the active Army and DFAS-related activities, many/most of the old soldiers with institutional knowledge and a professional lifetime of learning the ins and outs of the various pay systems were not replaced once they separated or retired (I was one of them, 23 yrs Army finance corps). Now you have people who are hired by the contractors, who have basically no prior knowledge of military or retired pay...

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For my children, my God sent husband and my Hadit family of veterans, I carry on.

God Bless A m e r i c a, Her Veterans and their Families!

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Jim great job. DFAS is a little slow however, once they send it back to VA the retro seems to come pretty quick. To use a VA quote "more than likley" your retro will all come from VA since they are the ones who with held the money. Normally not a DFAS problem until you get a back-dated 100 percent rating. At that point both DFAS and the VA would owe you some retro.

It amazes me that DFAS is still having the same problem. I guess it is job security for Lockheed-Martin guys by not fixing the problem. You know during my life time of military service DFAS never had a problem updating their computer systems to meet the changing demands placed upon them. As a result I never ever had a pay problem. I was a good boy though and did what I was told to do. Seemed as though the only ones, THAT I KNOW OF, that ever had pay problems was the bad boys.

Manitou - I contribute my successful record of getting my green stuff on time every month to dedicated guys like you. Not only did you guys know your jobs, you were dedicated soldiers, that cared about the soldiers you support. My hat is off to you and those like you. Now for these contractors that seem to be squeezing their way into the system, well I can not say much for them. I have spoken to some of them about my retired pay a couple of times - they did not seem to know what the heck I was talking about nor what the problem was. The worst of it though was they appeared to really not give a damn. Well I guess not all change is good. Just hate to see it in the finance field cause when a soldier is out jumping over IED's he/she truly does not need the worry of his family not eating because some idiot contractor messed up his pay and then really don't care if the family starves. His/her only concern is his pay check pops into the bank so he can go catting on Friday night.

outsourcing - just hope it does not come to the point that when a soldier calls about his pay he has to learn a foreign language inorder to be able to speak to a lady in Bangladesh about his military pay! <_<

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