I just got back from Iraq a couple months ago, been on current duty station almost 3 years, and haven't attended any school in TDY status or anything. This months LES shows I'm repaying DFAS a "Travel Pay debt" of $2038.
WTF is that from?! I haven't received Travel Pay since our PCS here in early 2007 and then it was the right amount for our move (wife had it all calculated).
Could DFAS have made an error?! They are taking it back in big chunks, which is killing me because I didn't know they were doing it, so now my wife is scrambling to rearrange household finances this payday!
Anyone else ever deal with this mysterious "Travel Pay"???
It could be from 2007 if you were overpaid. You need to talk to your 1Sgt or whoever and get them to make an inquiry to what it is for if it isn't listed in the comments below. If you have your LES' from then you might want to review them as well.
In 2007 we received a Pay Advance of $500 (paid back monthly) and the proper DLA and Mileage and PerDiem for the move we made from OK. We certainly didn't receive two THOUSAND too much, that would have been noticed by me and my wife (she's a Bookkeeper so keeps track of money religiously).
This puzzles me greatly, but I found a number to call regarding Travel Pay debts (DFAS Regional office). Will get this cleared up as it's causing ALOT of stress needless to say.
Thank you though, just wondered if anyone had had DFAS do this to them by mistake.
If you receive a travel advance you must still complete a travel claim on the completion of your travel or Cleveland will think the travel was never performed and will take back the advance.
Well after days of going round with a few different entities I've come to find out that I was NOT overpaid anything. That is according to DFAS Customer Service and Debt Mgmt. They said I simply needed to get Finance on post to re-submit my Voucher from back then.
However, this is the fun part, the DFAS office on post is refusing to re-submit it. They're instead telling me "You owe the money, you must cuz we don't make mistakes, so just pay it back and deal with it. We're not re-submitting any Vouchers, this is a valid debt."
Well if DFAS Indianapolis and Debt Management BOTH tell me it's NOT valid and it's simply a missing Voucher, how in the heck can Finance on post just REFUSE to do what needs done?!
You need to get your chain of command involved. Will you be able to name or recognize the 42A or 42L that refused? I would consider it a derelection of duty on his/her part.
The Finance office on base is run by the service, not DFAS. DFAS merely processes and pays what the service finance offices send them. It sounds like your service finance office is not doing their job (Happens all the time in the AF). You need to speak to your 1st Sgt and Commander and get them involved. They can speak to finance and find out exactly what the problem is... Best of luck!
