If you still haven’t claimed your stop loss special pay, the deadline has been extended to October 21st. The 2009 War Supplemental Appropriations Act authorized retroactive stop loss special pay of $500 for every month served in stop-loss status. Service members, veterans, and beneficiaries of service members who were involuntarily extended under stop loss between 9/11 and September 30th 2009 are eligible. Congress set aside $534 million for stop-loss pay, but as of the end of last month only $219 million had been paid.

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