Posted on May 13, 2021
If I serve 6 years in the National Guard and 20 years Active Duty will my pension be 50% of my base pay with 26 years of service?
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If I serve 6 years in the National Guard and 20 years Active Duty will my pension be 50% of my base pay with 26 years of service?
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Your pay will be 50% of your final 36 months monthly average. The formula is (total the last 36 months of base pay / 36) x (2.5% x whole years AD)
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MAJ Ken Landgren yes he would get credit for any AD time served in the Reserves. He's supposed to submit a 1506 upon entry to AD so I just assumed that is counted into his calculation of 20 years
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Wouldn't it be a bit over 50% because of the days he served over the 6 years in the guard? He's MI so I'm guessing even with no deployment he'd have 1 to 2 years worth of schools, drill and AT.
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CW3 Matt Tait no your inactive duty time doesn't count. Active Duty retirement doesn't calculate points. You are given credit towards your BASD when you come onto AD, the BASD is used to calculate how many years of AD are credited towards your retirement. So, if you you do two years worth of drill, AT, and mobilization, your BASD will be moved back two years from the day you join AD.
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Not exactly. You have to use the retirement points calculation to accurately account for your pension benefit in retirement. Here is the link to the formula from DFAS:
https://www.dfas.mil/retiredmilitary/plan/estimate/
If you're serving in the National Guard for six years you will typically only accrue a small percentage of the total available points in a year (360 points per year for AD). Those points will factor into your total time and need to be calculated with your 7,200 AD points from your 20 years on AD.
Hope this helps.
https://www.dfas.mil/retiredmilitary/plan/estimate/
If you're serving in the National Guard for six years you will typically only accrue a small percentage of the total available points in a year (360 points per year for AD). Those points will factor into your total time and need to be calculated with your 7,200 AD points from your 20 years on AD.
Hope this helps.
Defense Finance and Accounting Service RetiredMilitary plan estimate
The official website of the Defense Finance Accounting Service (DFAS)
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CPT Lawrence Cable
SFC (Join to see) - Unless the rules have changed, he should still get credit for all his points for pay. You don't double dip on the Active Points from the Reserve Time, but the Army will give him credit for IDT points for Pay.
I still think his actual question is will he pull pay as a CW2 with 26 years TIS and the answer is yes. He should be getting TIS credit of his Reserve time now.
I still think his actual question is will he pull pay as a CW2 with 26 years TIS and the answer is yes. He should be getting TIS credit of his Reserve time now.
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