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Pay available for those held in service

Source: Military Times - News

Nov 08, 2009

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About 9,600 current and former Marines are eligible for at least $500 through a new program that pays troops for the months they were kept on active duty by the Defense Department’s stop-loss policy, Marine officials said.The program pays active-duty, former and retired service members $500 for every month and partial month — between Sept. 11, 2001, and Sept. 30, 2009 — that they were forced to remain on active-duty beyond their planned retirement or end-of-active-service date. The Corps used stop-loss from Jan. 7, 2002, through Sept. 30, 2003, a period that spanned planning stages for the invasion of Iraq and the war’s opening months.About five employees will field Marine stop-loss claims at Manpower & Reserve Affairs’ headquarters aboard Marine Corps Base Quantico, Va., said Maj. Shawn Haney, a spokeswoman for the command.Paper trailAlong with their claim, Marines seeking payment must provide a DD Form 214 separation document or other personnel records showing when they were originally approved to retire or separate from the service, and how long they were ...Read the full article

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