Posted on Jan 27, 2014
Has any soldier (active/retired) gone through this scenario? I got a letter in the mail from the child support intercept folks.
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It said I owed over $1,000 dollars in back child support. Knowing that it comes out of my retirement check I disagreed. The woman looked in the system and-said that I'd missed a couple of months which I still knew was wrong because every month I check my retirement statement to make sure it goes out. We both were wrong. After talking to her I called DFAS and got some startling info. For us to get paid on the first of the month DFAS sends payments out on the last day of the month. With most months having thirty days this works perfectly. The problem is with the months that have thirty-one days. Because the system is on a thirty day cycle and when there is thirty one days in that month the payment for the next month goes out on day thirty-one. Child support takes it as payment for that same month instead of payment for that next month. So this falsely shows up as the soldier not paying for that month. This is a travesty. I asked the lady at DFAS if the state child support agencies knew this info and she said no. That is where the problem is. State child support agencies and DFAS need to talk. There is no telling how many good soldiers that are doing the right thing are being railroaded by this. Has anyone gone though this besides me?
Posted 12 y ago
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I actually had this happen twice during deployments during OIF, I had to notify the CSD for the current state of my dependent child at the time, and all it took was for me to get a letter from DFAS to show that is was not due to negligence or error on my part but that it was the way the system was functioning for military pay.
You may want to request this same letter if they are able to still issue them or if they do it for retirees, I haven't had an issue yet since I retired 3 years ago, but since you brought it up I may need to keep an eye out for the potential problem to pop up until mu one child turns 18, which incidentally is this summer.
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