Has anybody received VSI/SSB that are now having payments recouped from their retired pay? How long did it take until your payments started?

Thanks...must be their month for starting recoupments as mine starts coming out this month as well.

The set VSI/SSB deduction is 40% of your gross pay. It is non taxed income, that part of your question is incorrect. There are ways to claim a hardship to have that amount reduced. (Google VSI/SSB) If you have SBP that is much more complicated to figure out. Due to how you structured your SBP coverage way back at your 20 in service mark. Mine is about 8%.

Thanks for your response. I don’t have SBP, so that will make it easier. Reference the taxes, my initial statement was probably confusing. I was told that I have to pay back the gross VSI (including the taxes that were already taken out), which means we all end up paying back the taxes that were taken out. Have you heard of any of the hardship requests being approved? The 40% is better than the 50% I was told, but still a lot higher than I had planned for.

I have retired and started getting retirement pay. but I get two LESs one show sthe VSI Debt and then I get one showing full ret pay. they have not taken the VSI repayment. I called ret pay section they have my VSI recoup debt on record but I still get my full ret pay. I am taking the VSI payment and putting in a separate account till I find out what is going on?