DEPLOYED PAY ENTITLEMENTS

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• DEPLOYED
• PAY
• ENTITLEMENTS

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• PRESENTED BY

• Cpl Williams

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ITEMS TO BE COVERED

• Family Separation Allowance Type II
• Hostile Fire Pay
• Hardship Duty Pay-Location
• Combat Zone Tax Exclusion
• Deployed Per Diem
• Check Field Rations
• Discounted Meal Rate

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ITEMS TO BE COVERED CONT.

• Special Leave Accrual (Leave Restoration).
• Combat Leave
• Split Pay

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Family Separation Allowance Type II

• Member with Dependents or an Active Duty spouse
  may not be applied until member has been TAD away
  from his PDS continuously for more than 30 days.
  On the 31st day away from his PDS FSA II will
  start retroactive to day of departure from PDS.

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FAMILY SEPARATION ALLOWANCE CONT.

• FSA II is 250.00 a month (Roughly 8.33 a day).
• A Marine will rate FSA II from the day they
  depart until the day before they arrive back.
• Ref DODFMR Vol. 7A, Chap 27 and MCTFSPRIM, Chap
  9 par 90301.

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HOSTILE FIRE PAY (HFP)

• Service Members on official duty who are subject
  to hostile fire/mines in designated area (land or
  airspace) will receive this credit when
  performing assigned duties in a designated
  location beginning and ending that month. If a
  member is in a designated area for one day,
  member will rate entitlement for the entire month.

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HOSTILE FIRE PAY CONT.

• Hostile Fire Pay is 225.00 per month (Roughly
  7.50 a day).
• Ref DODMFR Vol. 7A, Chap 10 and MCTFSPRIM Chap 9
  par 90701.

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HARDSHIP DUTY PAY-LOCATION (HDP-L)

• Start HDP-L will accrue if the member remains in
  designated location for a continuous period of 30
  days or more.
• On the 31st day in a designated location HDP-L
  will start retroactive to the day of arrival.
• Member will rate HDP-L for everyday that he/she
  is in a designated area.

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HDP-L CONT.

• Afghanistan - 100 a month
• Kuwait - 100 a month
• Iraq - 100 a month
• (Roughly 3.33 a day.)
• Ref DODFMR Vol. 7A, Chap 17, and MCTFSPRIM Chap
  9 par 90801.

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COMBAT ZONE TAX EXCLUSION (CZTE)

• Members on official duty in a designated location
  are subject to exclusion on all taxable income.
• If a member is in a CZTE designated area for one
  day, member rates entitlement for the entire
  month.

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CZTE CONT.

• Marines that are currently (Including Deployed
  Entitlements) making more then the SgtMaj of the
  Marine Corps base pay plus Hostile Fire Pay
  (225) will not be completely tax free. These
  Marines will only pay taxes on wages earned over
  the amount of the SgtMaj of the Marine Corps base
  pay plus HFP.

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CZTE CONT

• The same applies to Combat Leave.
• Ref DODFMR Vol. 7A Chap. 44 and MCTFSPRIM Chap
  8, par 80604.

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DEPLOYED PER DIEM

• All members in designated area will receive 3.50
  a day for meals and incidental expenses (Roughly
  105.00 a month).
• Member will not rate Deployed Per Diem on the
  first and last day of deployment.
• Ref MARADMIN 050/03.

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FIELD RATIONS CHECKAGE

• While traveling government air members will be
  checked Field Rations for meals.
• Members will be checked Field Rations the day of
  departure and the following day.
• The amount of the checkage is 3.50 a day.
• No member will be checked Field Rations while in
  Kuwait/Iraq.

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FIELD RATIONS CHECKAGE CONT.

• No member who travels via commercial flight will
  be checked Field Rations because his/her meals
  are not the at expense of the government.
• Ref DODFMR Vol 7A, Chap 25 and MCO 10110.47.

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DISCOUNTED MEAL RATE

• If member has a meal card his/her Discounted Meal
  Rate will stop being deducted the day before
  he/she departs for deployment. DMR is stopped a
  day prior to deployment so Check Field Rations
  can be reported for the day of departure. Start
  DMR will be reported the day after member
  returns.

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DMR CONT.

• DMR is started on this day so that Check Field
  Rations can be reported on the day of arrival.
• Member will continue to receive BAS while not
  being deducted DMR while Forward Deployed.

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SPECIAL LEAVE ACCRUAL (LEAVE RESTORATION)

• If deployed, member may accumulate leave in
  excess of 60 days during a fiscal year not to
  exceed 90. Request must be made via chain of
  command to the approving authority by the end of
  the first quarter of the following fiscal year.

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SLA CONT.

• i.e., Request for FY02 leave restoration must be
  submitted after 20020930 but no later then
  20031231.
• Ref MCTFSAPSM, par 10202.E, MCO P1050.3, and
  SCENAVINST 1050.5, Leave and Liberty Regulations
  Manu, P 2006.

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COMBAT LEAVE

• COMBAT LEAVE IS NOT EXTRA LEAVE!

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COMBAT LEAVE CONT.

• Combat leave is regular leave earned for service
  in a designated Combat Zone Tax Exclusion Area.
  Member will accrue 2.5 days of combat leave every
  month that CZTE is rated.

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COMBAT LEAVE CONT.

• Any leave that is taken after leaving CZTE will
  be the first charged from combat leave balance.
• Ref MCTFSPRIM Chap 7 par 70109.

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SPLIT PAY

• Split pay is a way that Marines can receive a
  portion of their paycheck while forward deployed.
  If a Marine wishes to participate in split pay
  he/she must enroll prior to deployment. If a
  Marine has split pay but does not withdraw all of
  it while forward deployed, the remaining money
  will be credited once Stop Split Pay has been
  reported on Unit Diary.

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