Hi,

My husband is currently enlisted in the Navy and has been for close to 9 years. Recently when he re-enlisted and was due to get his SRB the DAFS informed us that in 2000 they had overpaid him a suprisingly large amount. Now, while he is away on the boat DAFS is attempting to withold/garnish his wages and being very shady in general with what is going on. I am extremely confused as to how me and my two children have to pay for their oversight and their error in this matter. As im sure some of you may know, it is not easy in any sense of the word to raise two children. I do not see how it is even remotely fair or even in the realm of ethical to do this to someone and their family after almost 7 years. If that wasnt bad enough we were given a very short amount of time to repay the amount that they had overpaid him on an E-5's pay.(24 months to repay close to eight thousand dollars)

Perhaps the worst part of this all is the fact that they have not even attempted to be helpful whatsoever. In fact they arent even trying to be up front or give us any small amount of information about what we can do. It is sometimes hard to make it through the pay periods now, I dont really see how it is going to work with them holding the pay sometimes, or taking money straight out of his paycheck.

I would just like to know if anyone out there can give me any information or help in any way concerning this matter, because I cannot seem to be able to find any resoloution to this matter.

Thank you

I'm no expert in this field; but, what I can do is transfer this to the "Navy Forum", for better assistance.
There should be someone there who can provide guidance.

Try contacting your husband's base's PSD. I'm not really sure if they take civilians or not, but since it is concerning a pay issue while your husband's away, I'm sure someone's willing to help.

If not, try the other Family Support offices and see what guidance they can give, ie Ombudsman and FFSC liasons. Explain your situation, and hopefully they'll lead you in the right direction.

If your husband can get through his LPO/LCPO/DivO and explain the situation, they can have a "command authority" help hasten the process.

Not knowing your specifics, those are the basic routes to follow. They're the trained professionals on pay and family issues.

What he said. You or your husband have to discuss this with the folks at PSD and whatnot. They should be able to come up with a way to make it less of a burden on you (the money will still be taken). I know they garnished mine a while back due to overpay. I only got $660 on my paycheck. I had just moved in, so no cash was readily on hand, and I had to pay $900 rent that day. I was never informed till I read my MyPay statement. PSD for me just happened to sit there on their butts saying that it was legit, which is wrong. The Navy is supposed to inform you, and see if any hardship will occur. If any, then both parties are to work out a plan to make the hardship less. Thankfully for me, I had taken out a loan the previous day, so I was able to pay my rent. That's not the way to fix it, but for me it was just the easy way out.
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