Posted on Mar 8, 2019
Pentagon may tap military pay, pensions for border wall
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The non-emergency emergency could soon get very personal for the military.
The non-emergency emergency could soon get very personal for the military.
Pentagon may tap military pay, pensions for border wall
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From the article. How does this effect pay and retirements?
“This is pay that would have gone to Army recruits that we can’t recruit,” Durbin said. “So there’s a ‘savings’ because we can’t recruit. The other part was they offered a voluntary change in military pensions, and they overestimated how many people would sign up for it.”
“This is pay that would have gone to Army recruits that we can’t recruit,” Durbin said. “So there’s a ‘savings’ because we can’t recruit. The other part was they offered a voluntary change in military pensions, and they overestimated how many people would sign up for it.”
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MCPO Roger Collins
MSG Stan Hutchison And I would like to see less hypocrisy from you haters on the extreme left, neither is likely to happen. For years Reagan and Bush were vilified, good luck getting us to forget the extremely corrupt Obama and Clinton administrations.
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MSG Stan Hutchison
MCPO Roger Collins - 1. I don't hate anyone. That is a waste of energy.
2. I did not see any "vilification" of Reagan. Not sure which Bush you are referring to.
3. No evidence of corruption in either Clinton or Obama's administration.
2. I did not see any "vilification" of Reagan. Not sure which Bush you are referring to.
3. No evidence of corruption in either Clinton or Obama's administration.
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MSG Stan Hutchison
MCPO Roger Collins - I guess you don't wish to conduct a conversion, so I will let it go. For now.
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Please note that the article says "LEFT OVER" funds from military pay and pension accounts. Senator Durbin is either profoundly ignorant, or deliberately misleading on military pay and pension budgeting. Left over funds are those that the military assumed it would have to pay, but did not actually have to pay. Recruitment or retention goals do not always perfectly match actual personnel realities and retirees are notorious for being incorrigible and refusing to die on September 30, last day of the fiscal year.
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Lt Col John (Jack) Christensen
If you didn't die before the last day of the fiscal year how can there be 'leftover pension funds?
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Maj John Bell
Lt Col John (Jack) Christensen - Because the Fiscal budget for 2020 is supposed to be completed and signed (I know... I know...) on September 30th 2019. If you are a trouble maker, and die on October 1st, 2019; there are 23 pay days of retirement pay that are no longer obligated funds. (It isn't actually calculated on an individual basis, but there is a healthy safety margin cranked in, and funds from military pay accounts and retirement accounts are leftover virtually every year.)
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What a BS article. Could anyone see Congress default on paying military retirement? Just as they will not touch SS funds. This was not a smart writer and should have known better.
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SMSgt Lawrence McCarter
Yep, they robbed Social Security which wasn't theirs, they don't care whose money they steal or misuse as long as it doesn't come out of their own pockets. There was Social Security money they took also, it hadn't been used yet, so congress figured We will use it and they did ! The bottom line is the US Congress has already proven over and over again they can't be trusted !
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