{"id":16328,"date":"2009-12-24T06:32:14","date_gmt":"2009-12-24T11:32:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=16328"},"modified":"2009-12-24T06:32:14","modified_gmt":"2009-12-24T11:32:14","slug":"stop-loss-backpay-stoppedlost","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=16328","title":{"rendered":"Stop-loss backpay stopped\/lost"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Now that the Defense Finance and Accounting Services have paid out to 1700 service members who were stop\/lossed the $500\/month they were owed, the Army and Air Force tell us that the rules were changed by Congress so that many soldiers and airmen are no longer eligible for the payments. From the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stripes.com\/article.asp?section=104&#038;article=66851\">Stars &#038; Stripes<\/a>;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nThe bill makes clear that troops who re-enlisted or extended their contract and collected a bonus while being held under stop-loss do not qualify for the compensation.<\/p>\n<p>The temporary halt will last until the Army gets a list of soldiers who received a re-enlistment or retention bonus while being stop-lossed, said Army spokeswoman Jill Mueller.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe services didn\u2019t decide this,\u201d Mueller said on Wednesday. \u201cThis was decided by the legislature and we are executing their will.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Of course, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.armytimes.com\/news\/2008\/07\/military_stoplosspay_house_072508w\/\">no one mentioned this before the election<\/a> when Democrats were holding this up as proof that they support the troops, and we find out now after months of chatter about their promises of largesse. Funny how that works, ain&#8217;t it?<\/p>\n<p>I wonder how VoteVets will report this?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Now that the Defense Finance and Accounting Services have paid out to 1700 service members who &hellip; <a title=\"Stop-loss backpay stopped\/lost\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=16328\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Stop-loss backpay stopped\/lost<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[89,84],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16328","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-congress-sucks","category-military-issues"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16328","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16328"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16328\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16328"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}