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Financial Distress Among Soldiers Due to Unpaid Bonuses

The National Guard has failed to pay enlistment bonuses to at least 9,000 soldiers, with delays spanning years and affecting an additional 3,900 who left without receiving any payments.

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  • October 28, 2023
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Staff Sgt. Terrell Summers, an awards and decorations noncommissioned officer with The Adjutant General Directorate, U.S. Army Human Resources Command, finishes the 12-mile foot march event of the 2023 HRC Best Warrior Competition at Fort Knox, Kentucky, March 10. Five Soldiers competed in 10 events over the course of four days for HRC’s combined Best Warrior and AG NCO of the Year competitions.
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The National Guard has failed to pay enlistment bonuses to at least 9,000 soldiers, with delays spanning years and affecting an additional 3,900 who left without receiving any payments. Payment processing issues have been attributed to understaffed and undertrained personnel, and long-term system outages, significantly impacting soldiers and their families.
  

Key Points: 

  1. Delayed Bonus Payments: Over 9,000 National Guard soldiers have not received their promised enlistment bonuses, with some payments overdue for years. Additionally, around 3,900 soldiers completed their service without receiving any bonus.
  2. Impact on Soldiers: The missing payments, often as high as $20,000, have caused financial and personal distress among soldiers. The bonuses are a crucial part of the National Guard’s recruitment appeal, offering financial incentives for part-time service and occasional deployment.
  3. System Failures and Manual Processing: The Army National Guard Incentive Management System (GIMS) experienced multiple catastrophic outages in recent years, leading to a reliance on complex manual processing for bonus payments and resulting in significant backlogs.
  4. Administrative Challenges: Full-time Guard staff, often not initially trained for administrative roles, struggle with multiple complex online systems. Misinformation about the availability of funds and bureaucratic hurdles have compounded the issues in bonus payment processing.
  5. Historical Context and Efforts for Resolution: This is not the National Guard’s first issue with enlistment bonuses. The Pentagon previously waived debts and reimbursed Guardsmen affected by the California National Guard’s incorrect bonus payments. Current efforts to address the bonus payment delays include setting up incentive oversight teams and investigating state-level issues, but solutions are expected to take years.

 

Source: https://www.military.com/daily-news/2023/10/27/soldiers-unpaid-national-guard-hasnt-paid-out-thousands-of-enlistment-bonuses.html 

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