Air Reserve

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Air Reserve Personnel Center
Air Reserve Personnel Center (ARPC) Mission and
Hot Topics
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Overview

• Who is ARPC?
• Customer Service Provided
• Hot Topics

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Air Reserve Component Personnel Management
HQ Air Force Reserve/ AFRC Commander Lt Gen
Charles E. Stenner Jr. Pentagon
ARPC Commander Brig Gen Kevin E. Pottinger Denver
Director, ANG Lt Gen Harry M. Wyatt III Pentagon
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The ARPC Mission
Dedicated Professionals Serving Citizen
Airmen to Sustain the Total Force
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ARPC Workforce
Military 184 ART 1 Regular
90 Res/ANG AGR 93 Civilians
228 Contractors 229 Total
641
Most civilians are GS-5, military personnel
technicians Includes full time Air National Guard
positions
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ARPC Customer Base
ANG/Reserve/Retired Total 975.2K
Data from MILPDS
as of 30 Jun 09
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Customer Service Provided

• Air Reserve Units
• Officer Promotion Selection Board
• Master Records (ARMS)
• Entitlements
• Point History (PCARS)
• Policy Implementation
• Enlisted PEP Board
• Reserve Developmental Education Designation Board
• Force Development
• Duty History Changes/Corrections online
• Retirement Applications online
• Awards and Decorations online
• Evaluations online
• Military Service Dates online

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Customer Service Provided to Retired Active
Duty/Reservists

• Reserve - Retired Awaiting Pay (under age 60)
  
• Mobilization
• Policy Implementation
• Computer records
• Benefits and counseling
• Master records
• Active Duty - Retired Under Age 60
• Mobilization
• Survey Update Data
• Policy Implementation
• Active Duty/Reserve - Retired Over Age 60
• Computer records

428.4K
252.5K
62.3K
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Hot Topics
Interactive Web
IDT Travel Costs
Paternity Leave
Proposed FY 10 Legislation
New GI Bill
FY 08 FY 09 Legislation
e-Records
Duty History
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Public Web Site www.arpc.afrc.af.mil
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- Services to

• You
• Guardsman
• AGR
• Unit
• IMA
• Participating Individual Ready Reserve
• Non-Participating Reservists
• Active Duty Retirees
• Reserve Retirees
• Your family members
• Over a million customers worldwide

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Virtual Personnel Center Guard and Reserve

• ARPCs State-of-the-Art Contact Center provides
  guidance, assistance, and personnel actions to
  Reserve members from virtually anywhere
• View question/answers online
• Send an E-mail
• Make a phone call
• Log on https//arpc.afrc.af.mil/ or
• E-Mail arpc.contactcenter_at_arpc.denver.af.mil
• 24/7/365
• Pick up the phone [phone]or DSN 926-6528
• 0600-1800 (MT) Monday-Friday
• 0800-1600 (MT) 1st 2nd and 3rd Saturday of each
  month
• 1-800-525-0102 is the Total Force shared number

Now CAC Enabled
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Virtual Personnel Contact Center Guard and
Reserve Serving You
Create a personal account

• Benefits to You
• Receive information through e-mail
• Conduct Self-service transactions
• Request documents

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Virtual Personnel Center Guard and Reserve
On-Line Dashboard
Conduct your self-service transactions through
the Dashboard
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vMPF versus

• Immediately Print 20 Year Letter
• Complete Letter to Board Officers
• Receive Post Board Counseling Officers
• Apply for Retirement
• Request Copies of Documents
• Correct Points
• Immediately Print Mortgage Letter
• Request Copy of DD 214
• Request Awards Decs
• Update reminder for CEI
• Processing EPR/OPR
• Update Duty History

• vMPF
• Emergency Data Form (93)
• Change Address
• View Points
• View Duty History
• View Awards Decs
• Initiate DD 214 worksheet
• Update CEI

built for Active Duty most items are view for
reservists
interactive and online services for Guard
Reserve
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Duty History

• Update you duty history in vPC-GR
• Your source documents need to be attached to your
  vPC-GR request
• AF Form 1098, Special Task Certification and
  Recurring Training
• AF Form 2096, Classification/On-the Job Training
  Action
• AF Form 910, Enlisted Performance Report (AB thru
  TSgt)
• AF Form 911, Senior Enlisted Performance Report
  (MSgt thru CMSgt)
• AF Form 707A, Field Grade Officer Performance
  Report (Maj thru Col)
• AF Form 707B, Company Grade Officer Performance
  Report (2Lt thru Capt)
• Special Orders (P-Series)
• General Orders (for organizational changes)
• Questions call 1-800-525-0102

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Records - The Way Ahead

• Air Force moving toward total e-Records
• Field Records are being committed to Automated
  Records Management System (ARMS)
• No Paper Record kept at MPFs, AFPC or ARPC
• Link to FAQs for Electronic Records
• http//www.arpc.afrc.af.mil/questions/topic.asp?id
  1405

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e-Records

• You will have electronic access to your field
  record via AFPC Secure (.mil and .gov access
  only)
• You will be able to view these types of
  documents
• Evaluations
• SGLI
• DD FM 93
• Orders
• Latest DD214

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Whats in Your Master Record

• Just a few examples of documents in your record
• Appointments Orders/Enlistment
• Appointment Order
• DD Form 4
• Discharge/Separation/Retirement/DD 214
• NGB 22
• Retirement Order
• 20 Year Letter
• To obtain documents call or go on line
• ARPC Contact Center
• 1-800-525-0102
• https//arpc.afrc.af.mil/vPC-GR/

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Payment of IDT Travel Costs

• Applies to members of the Selected Reserve in
  critical AFSCs and current critical staffing
  shortages list
• Assigned to BRAC, Programmatic locations
• Includes PBD 720 impacted IMAs/organizations who
  continue to serve in the Selected Reserve
  irrespective of their new duty station
• Reside 150 miles or more from the duty station
• Perform UTAs, RMPs, AFTPs and GTPs
• May be reimbursed for expenses from 14 Aug 08 to
  31 Dec 10
• Actual authorized costs not to exceed 300.00 per
  IDT round trip
• Limited to 12 roundtrip reimbursements per FY

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Paternity Leave for AF Reserve Members

• 14 Oct 08 NDAA FY2009 signed
• Authorized 10 days (non-chargeable) paternity
  leave to married members on active duty whose
  wife gives birth to a child
• Absence will be taken over consecutive days and
  must be taken within 60 days following the birth
• If on active duty order for 30 days, submit a
  hardcopy AF IMT 988
• If commander approves, submit the hardcopy AF
  IMT 988 to the leave monitor for processing
• Commander may disapprove if absence causes
  adverse impact on readiness/mission
• Questions on procedures
• Contact your accounting and finance office
• Questions on policy
• Contact CMSgt Beatriz Swan, AF/REPP, Comm
  (703)-588-6062, DSN 425-6062

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Legislative Changes FY 08

• Section 1102 Continuation of Life Insurance
  Coverage For Federal Employees Called to AD
• Authorizes Federal employees who are members of a
  reserve component called or ordered to AD for
  more than 30 days and who enters on approved
  leave without pay to perform AD continue coverage
  under Federal Employees Group Life Insurance for
  a period not to exceed 24 months
• Employees are responsible for the premium
  payments after the initial 12 months of coverage

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Legislative Changes FY 08

• Section 604-INCOME REPLACEMENT PAYMENTS FOR
  RESERVE COMPONENT MEMBERS EXPERIENCING EXTENDED
  AND FREQUENT MOBILIZATION FOR AD SERVICE
• OLD A reserve component member is entitled to a
  payment for any full month of
• AD under an involuntary mobilization order
  following the date on which the
• member - (1) completes 18 continuous months of
  service on AD under such an
• order (2) completes 24 months on AD during the
  previous 60 months under such
• an order.
• NEW Changes the method for measuring cumulative
  periods of qualifying
• service by counting cumulative days, rather than
  months. A member of a
• Reserve Component is entitled to be paid when
  (1) complete 547 continuous
• days on AD under an involuntary mobilization
  order during the previous 1,826
• days or (2) complete 730 cumulative days on AD
  under an involuntary
• mobilization order during the previous 1,826 days
  or (3) be involuntarily
• mobilized for service on AD for a period of 180
  days or more within 180 days
• after the date of the member's separation from a
  previous period of AD for a
• period of 180 days or more. (FY 09 NDAA extended
  it to 31 Dec 09)

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Legislative Changes FY 09

• Section 702 - Temporary Prohibition on Increase
  in Copayments Under Retail Pharmacy System of
  Pharmacy Benefits Program
• NEW Limits the cost-sharing requirements for
  drugs provided through the TRICARE retail
  pharmacy program to amounts not more than 3 for
  generic drugs, 9 for formulary drugs, and 22
  for non-formulary drugs until September 30, 2009.
  
• No increase, these are FY08 prices

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Legislative FY10 PROPOSALS

• CPP05-10BEmployment of Spouses, Widows/Widowers,
  and Immediate Family Members Preferential
  Appointment Would allow spouses,
  widows/widowers, and immediate family members of
  uniformed service members and DOD civilians who
  have deployed to contingency areas and sustained
  serious injuries or died in the GWOT preferential
  appointment of federal employment.
• HA01-10Reinstatement of Medical Benefits for
  Surviving Spouses When Subsequent Marriage Ends
  Reinstate medical benefits when the subsequent
  marriage of the surviving spouse or previous
  spouse who remarries while still under the age of
  55 ends because of death, annulment or divorce to
  the subsequent spouse.
• MPP02-10 Elimination of Offset to SBP
  Entitlements Due to Receipt of DIC Payment
  Eliminates the dollar for dollar reduction of the
  Survivor Benefit Program (SBP) annuity when a
  surviving spouse also receives the Dependency and
  Indemnity Compensation (DIC) payment from the
  Veterans Administration.

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New GI Bill Post 9/11 Education Program,
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New GI Bill - What is it?

• Applications now accepted using VA 22-1990
• Eligibility (VA Determines Eligibility)
• Requires minimum 90 days active duty cumulative
  since September 11, 2001 other than basic
  training/IADT/annual tours
• ANG Title 10
• How much will you get
• Actual Dollar amount paid depends on length of AD
  service
• 40 for 90 days up to 100 for 3 years of AD
  service
• Tuition capped at most expensive state school
  rate
• Tuition/Fees paid directly to the school
• 1000 annually for books/supplies
• Housing allowance for in-resident students only
• Can be used for
• In-residence study, distance learning,
  undergraduate and advanced degree classes,
  enrolled in after 1 Aug 2009

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New GI Bill - What is it?

• What is the length of your benefit
• 36 Months
• Must be used within 15 years of your last period
  of 90 continuous days of active duty
• If you have less than 90 continuous AD days, the
  date of your 91st day of cumulative service will
  be used to start your 15 years of eligibility
• VA limits you to a max of 48 months of benefits
  from all GI Bill programs for which you may be
  eligible
• If you qualify for the New GI Bill
• You may be able to transfer your benefit with
  additional eligibility

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Eligibility to Transfer Your Benefit

• Transfer to spouse
• You must have 6 years active duty and/or Sel Res
  service on the date of election and commit to an
  additional 4 years active duty and/or Sel Res
  service following 1 Aug 2009
• Transfer to dependent children
• You must have 10 years active duty and/or Sel Res
  service on date of election and commit to an
  additional 4 years active duty and/or Sel Res
  service following 1 Aug 2009
• You must be participating when you elect transfer
• You may revoke or modify the election after you
  leave participating status but you may not add a
  dependent
• Retirement eligible between 1 Aug 09 - 1 Aug 2013
  has reduced commitment

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Reduced Commitment for Transfer

• Having an approved retirement date 2 Aug 09
  through 30 Jun 10 will have no additional service
  requirement
• Eligible to retire (completed 20 years of
  service)
• On or before 1 Aug 09 will incur no addl service
• 2 Aug 09 - 31 Jul 10 will incur 1 addl year
• 1 Aug 10 - 31 Jul 11 will incur 2 addl years
• 1 Aug 11 - 31 Jul 12 will incur 3 addl years
• 1 Aug 12 and thereafter 4 additional years
• Additional service begins at time of application

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Transfer to dependents

• No restriction on number of available months or
  dependents to whom benefits are transferred
• Dependents must be listed in DEERS
• Member may elect to transfer benefit to unmarried
  children under the age of 18 or before their 23rd
  birthday and still in college
• Children may use benefit
• Once they attain the age of 18 or complete
  requirements of secondary school diploma (or
  equivalency certificate)
• Until age 26 even if members 15 year
  eligibility period has ended
• If child has married after starting benefit

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New GI Bill

• To establish Post 9/11 Education Assistance
  eligibility
• http//vabenefits.vba.va.gov/vonapp/main.asp
• Member may attach up to 5, 1mg attachments
  (orders, DD 214, etc)
• To elect to transfer benefits
• https//www.dmdc.osd.mil/TEB
• Site accessible with
• Common access card
• Defense Department self-service user
  identification
• Defense Finance and Accounting Service PIN
• For more information www.gibill.va.gov
• or call VA Education at 1-888-442-4551
• or call ARPC Contact Center at
• 1-800-525-0102

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Questions