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Question??? How does anyone know how find out information for Dependants. Does anyone know where to find the pay increase scale chart for new wives/dependants? Navy bride to be, soon to move with questions???
Thank you

I found the pay scale however not sure what to search under for adding a dependant.

There is no extra pay for having a dependant what you see under base pay is what you get. Look under your hubbies rank and his # of years of service and that's his pay.

The only time he gets more money with dependents is if you get a housing allowance to live out in town or if you are overseas and it is COLA (Cost of living allowance).

I get it now. Thank you for your help ....

Hi i have a question. The 1427.40 my df is getting right now as an e-2 in the army is her getting that every 1st and 15th? Or is it a total of 1427.40 to last the whole month which averages about 700.00 every two weeks?

Hey, no thats just 1427.40 a month it will be devided in to portions on the 1st and the 15th!!

my dh has been in Iraq since Sept and he is supposed to have tax free pay but he has not how does that work. do they reimburse the taxes at a certain point of his pay?
he is getting fica taken out and fed so how is that tax free?

he will still pay FICA- but for the fed tax, he just needs to check with finance to make sure they have him being paid in a combat zone.

he is only exempt from Fed taxes, state and Fica will still come out. sometimes, the Fed taxes are reimbursed at a later date..

The way I understand it is that they are a month or so behind on the tax issue. When they get it correct, his normal pay will remain the same, and there will be a special pay reimbursing the difference.

Also of note. If he is a guard member, many states do not tax guard income.

thanks for your info we just got his les for dec 1st and his pay keeps going down And down Anddown whatsup with that?

Ok I have a question about BAH and CONUS COLA .. I read up a little but I am still confused .. I know how much the BAH is and when I went to my honeys my pay there is a CONUS COLA can someone explain that to me? I am not complaining about the extra funds I just want to make sure of what they are.
Thanks for any help. ~ Jen

there are like three CONUS(Stateside) duty stations that rate COLA(Cost of Living Allowance). off the top of my head, I do not know which duty stations those are, but if he is there, he gets it. It will fluctuate monthly.

Okay did some checking and here is a link for the CONUS COLA places :

CONUS COLA Locations pdf file

The only states that COLA is paid is in California, Connecticut, Florida, Illinois, Mass,Michigan, NJ, Nevada, NY, Penn, and Washington and that is only in certain cities. Then some counties in NY and California. To get the COLA rate he has to be based in that city.

To work out the rates go here:

CONUS COLA

Thank you .. that was helpful.We are in Cali. I guess he didn't realize he would be getting it. Thanks for the help ~ Jen

I have a question on MY PAY....
Does my husband have to sign up for it? He has no username or password. what does he have to do to get a user name and password?
Thanks

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Originally posted by LadyBones:
I have a question on MY PAY....
Does my husband have to sign up for it? He has no username or password. what does he have to do to get a user name and password?
Thanks

yes.

Hi LadyBones .. I think they have you use the members social security number as the username and you create your password. Only thing is I am not sure where you sign up once you are on the page .. husband did all that. Good luck!