Payment Back Pay Amounts Confusing

[Snake Eyes]

I just got a check for back pay that is about $2,500 less than my award letter led me to believe. It looks like they paid for each month where there was an adjustment but not the months in between. Is this because of withholding? If so, who pays the difference? I'd expect DFAS would be faster than VA.

how long does the final payment, if any take?

[Chuck75]

Final payment from who? The VA? or DFAS/DOD?

[Snake Eyes]

That's what I'm not sure of. As noted above I got a payment from VA.

I'm wondering if more back pay could come after DFAS audits. Again, I may not be understanding the process fully.

[confusion99%]

My claim was approved end of July 2013. Got a rather large (to me) amount end of Dec.2013 from VA. Then in April 2014 got another rather large (to me) amount again. The total amount I received was pretty close to the estimate I calculated trying to use the same method of auditing the DFAS would use. That was taking into consideration a lot of factors as I was medically retired with 13.3 years so my retired pay was adjusted downward from what I was receiving for a lot of years when they calculated CRSC into the picture.

[confusion99%]

On mine above, both came from the VA. One before the Audit, then one a few months later, after the audit.

[Snake Eyes]

Thanks for the info, folks.