I am a Army reservist on orders for 62 days. Why do I have to wait 30 days for pay?

SGT Private RallyPoint Member — Sun, 12 Jan 2020 18:30:37 -0500

Response by MAJ Javier Rivera made Jan 12 at 2020 7:18 PM

MAJ Javier Rivera — Sun, 12 Jan 2020 19:18:45 -0500

The time takes for both unit and DFAS to process all of th admin stuff.

Response by MAJ Ken Landgren made Jan 12 at 2020 8:47 PM

MAJ Ken Landgren — Sun, 12 Jan 2020 20:47:40 -0500

Finance units and DFAS have a cut off date to impact pay. If the inputs miss the cut off, your pay will be delayed. I trust you on orders for a CONUS location, and where is at?

Response by MAJ Private RallyPoint Member made Jan 12 at 2020 9:40 PM

MAJ Private RallyPoint Member — Sun, 12 Jan 2020 21:40:23 -0500

Welcome to the unfortunate to the “you’re a soldier but you’re not a real soldier” experience of reserve and guard. As others said when you in process finance is one of the things that can lag and miss the cut off for deadlines delaying your pay. Horrible to expect someone to go that long without pay especially since many of us don’t get paid by civilian jobs when on leave so you’re not just without your military pay, but also your civilian pay. It was not fun going on 28 days of orders and not being paid until over a month later for it. Thankfully my federal job gives me 15 days of paid military leave so I still had my partial civilian pay coming in on time.

Response by SSG Private RallyPoint Member made Jan 13 at 2020 9:29 AM

SSG Private RallyPoint Member — Mon, 13 Jan 2020 09:29:15 -0500

Unfortunately the reserves have only 3 ways to pay orders, 1 to 7 days get paid after the order is complete and turned in signed. 8 to 29 days can be inputted into the systems and paid basically right when the orders end if all goes well, most UA's will split those orders so they can pay you if you can't wait, over 30 days goes to the unit finance on that post and it takes however long they need to process, and in some cases reservist are not a priority for them.