Hot! Application Deadline For Stop Loss Compensation Approaching

Application deadline to get Stop Loss reimbursement approaching

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

by Eric M. Grill Air Force Personnel, Service in addition to Manpower Public Affairs

10/14/2011 -RANDOLPH AIR FORCE BASE, Texas (AFNS)The Oct. 21 deadline to help make an application for Retroactive Stop Loss Special Pay is quick approaching.

Airmen whom were involuntarily stored about effective duty between Sept. 11, 2001, and Sept. 30, 2004, might be a candidate for that particular pay out damages with $500 intended for each month they were affected.

The 2010 War Supplemental Appropriation Act arranged aside $534.4 million for the retroactive stop-loss special pay off reimbursement authority. Officials explained Sept. 1 just $219 trillion have been given so far.

Eligibility consists of active, retired and also original servicemembers in addition as members from the reserve element who served on dynamic accountability though their enlistment or perhaps period of required service was involuntarily extended, or even in whose eligibility regarding separation and also pension ended up being dangling subsequently of Stop Loss .

More than 8,220 present and original Airmen happen to be approved for retroactive stop-loss special spend considering that Air Force Personnel Center officials the following commenced acknowledging promises within 2009, officials said.

Claims usually are looked at in relation to traditional files together with almost all helping certificate that the job seekers may well submit, mentioned Capt. Rose Englebert, primary with the AFPC Separations Branch.

"The far more tips this fellow member provides, the actual better," your lover said.

Air Force officers used stop-loss for Operation Enduring Freedom within 2001 and 2002 plus Operation Iraqi Freedom throughout 2003. The deadline to apply, formerly set regarding October 2010, seemed to be extended to allow for for much more individuals disturbed to apply pertaining to this retroactive pay. To archive a claim, eligible users as well as lawfully designated beneficiaries could download a new stop-loss claim application at .

"If anyone are generally unsure as to regardless of whether you are eligible, you might have nothing reduce by means of applying," Englebert said.

For info on this, and also other personnel issues, take a look at that Air Force Personnel Services web page at .