AMBUSHED: In 2011, Army medic Shawn Aiken returned to the U.S. with multiple war injuries, and soon found himself struggling to feed his family as the Pentagon took thousands of dollars from him in alleged debts that he didn’t actually owe. REUTERS/Ivan Pierre Aguirre
How The Pentagon’s Payroll Quagmire Traps America’s Soldiers -- Reuters
EL PASO, Texas - As Christmas 2011 approached, U.S. Army medic Shawn Aiken was once again locked in desperate battle with a formidable foe. Not insurgents in Iraq, or Taliban fighters in Afghanistan - enemies he had already encountered with distinguished bravery.
This time, he was up against the U.S. Defense Department.
Aiken, then 30 years old, was in his second month of physical and psychological reconstruction at Fort Bliss in El Paso, Texas, after two tours of combat duty had left him shattered. His war-related afflictions included traumatic brain injury, severe post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), abnormal eye movements due to nerve damage, chronic pain, and a hip injury.
But the problem that loomed largest that holiday season was different. Aiken had no money. The Defense Department was withholding big chunks of his pay. It had started that October, when he received $2,337.56, instead of his normal monthly take-home pay of about $3,300. He quickly raised the issue with staff. It only got worse. For all of December, his pay came to $117.99.
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My Comment: I suspect that this is just the tip of the iceberg .... I also suspect that if you are a high ranking general .... you will not even be having such a problem.
2 comments:
This is the story written about me. Let my misfortunes help those who don't speak up and give them a voice, so this broken system gets fixed immeadeatly!
Money is everything. This is the slogan of every people nowadays. In order to keep things smooth, people have to be paid what they desire for their services. Being timely and accurate at the salary is the key to the satisfaction and 100% throughput from the employees.
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Jimmie Menon
payroll providers in guelph .
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