We've heard horror stories about spouses learning their husbands turned down SGLI , and others for whom extra pay was surprise! Quite literally, it pays to know your way around an LES. Here's our line-by-line guide to making sense of one. It'll show all the deductions, entitlements, pay, leave, etc. If this is the service member's very last LES before separation, the scheduled separation date will be listed here.
This is where you'll want to look for extra pay if any , and all the things being withdrawn from pay like taxes, Social Security, TSP, etc. Examples include taxes, SGLI, mid-month pay, and dental. If you're overpaid by accident one month, the overpay amount will be listed as a deduction here the next.
So if the pay ever looks low to you, check here first! For example, there may be specified discretionary allotments for savings accounts, rent or investments. There may also be non-discretionary allotments listed here, like any child support automatically deducted from pay. This date is used only to indicate which retirement plan a service member falls under. This date isn't listed by DFAS, but rather, it comes from the personnel office.
If you believe the date is wrong, contact them right away. It may have started at the beginning of the fiscal year, when active duty began, or the day after the service member was paid Lump Sum Leave LSL.
ERND: This is the amount of leave earned in the fiscal year or current term of enlistment if the service member extended that enlistment side the beginning of the fiscal year.
Normally, you earn 2. It shows the projected number of days of leave that will be lost if not taken in the current fiscal year. Remember that many of your allowances and entitlements are non-taxable, so this number will not be the same as your total pay. If you owe back taxes, for example, you might elect to have that pulled out here. For officers, this field will be blank. TPC: This field is not used by any active-duty personnel.
REMARKS: Here, if anything, there will be general notices from command and explanations of starts, stops and changes to the items listed in the Entitlements, Deductions and Allotments fields. That's a lot to make sense of. The amount of money you receive is shown in two places. Your mid-month pay is listed as a deduction, and your end-of-month pay is listed.
Is the amount accurate for your situation? How much leave do you have available? Do you have leave that you need to use before the end of the fiscal year? Any impending changes to your pay or notices from your command? Save even a little money every month.
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