Stop-loss payouts won’t be retroactive

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Stop-loss payouts won’t be retroactive
By Rick Maze - Staff writer
Posted : Friday Sep 26, 2008 16:39:51 EDT

A compromise defense funding bill includes a $500 monthly allowance for service members extended on active duty by stop-loss orders.

But the deal will disappoint more than 160,000 people because it is not retroactive as previously proposed.

Instead, about 12,000 soldiers would qualify for payments under the deal announced Sept. 23.

The stop-loss allowance is included in an omnibus appropriations bill that provides one year of funding for defense, veterans and homeland security programs but temporary funding through March 6 for other federal agencies.

Lawmakers are rushing to pass the omnibus bill before ending the current legislative session. Aides cautioned that while most differences have been resolved, the bill is subject to change if that is what it takes to get it passed.


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