CRSC Timeline - Navy

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Venom949

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Mid June-ish, 2024 - CRSC package submitted (Snail mail)
09 July 2024 - CRSC package/claim received by CRSC Board
06 Nov, 2025 - CRSC Approval
17 Nov, 2025 - CRSC Letter Received

Backpay - eventually?? I hope??

Everything was dated back to my retirement date.
 
Venom949 said:
Mid June-ish, 2024 - CRSC package submitted (Snail mail)
09 July 2024 - CRSC package/claim received by CRSC Board
06 Nov, 2025 - CRSC Approval
17 Nov, 2025 - CRSC Letter Received

Backpay - eventually?? I hope??

Everything was dated back to my retirement date.
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normally they turn on your pay for the following month. Then in the next 3-6 months they process your backpay for the several months of backpay that you are owed. That's how it went for my wife. She got approved and started getting paid but it took 4 months for her to get her 3 months of CRSC backpay. The backpay is processed by a special group in DFAS since they have to calculate everything. The larger the check and the more the backpay the longer it takes.

My wife's experience was a while ago so this information might be stale. She was Army. Her CRSC was processed much quicker than the timeline for the Navy. However, I am assuming the timeline should be the same since after approval its waiting on DFAS and not your branch after sending out results and pay info to DFAS.
 
Provis said:
normally they turn on your pay for the following month. Then in the next 3-6 months they process your backpay for the several months of backpay that you are owed. That's how it went for my wife. She got approved and started getting paid but it took 4 months for her to get her 3 months of CRSC backpay. The backpay is processed by a special group in DFAS since they have to calculate everything. The larger the check and the more the backpay the longer it takes.

My wife's experience was a while ago so this information might be stale. She was Army. Her CRSC was processed much quicker than the timeline for the Navy. However, I am assuming the timeline should be the same since after approval its waiting on DFAS and not your branch after sending out results and pay info to DFAS.
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Thanks for the run down! Yeah I'm sure it's coming I just won't hold my breath waiting on the backpay haha. Fortunately they did the back pay to my retirement in May 2004.

The Navy timeline is ridiculous, I will add that I did contact my Congressman and had them engage and within that week got a response and then my findings. Not sure if 18 months just happened to line up with the congressional inquiry, but I did throw in a plug that the Army and Air Force got their CRSC down to 2-3 months, so it's a process and resource allocation issue that should be addressed. Fingers crossed the process improves for USN/USMC in the future!
 
Venom949 said:
Thanks for the run down! Yeah I'm sure it's coming I just won't hold my breath waiting on the backpay haha. Fortunately they did the back pay to my retirement in May 2004.

The Navy timeline is ridiculous, I will add that I did contact my Congressman and had them engage and within that week got a response and then my findings. Not sure if 18 months just happened to line up with the congressional inquiry, but I did throw in a plug that the Army and Air Force got their CRSC down to 2-3 months, so it's a process and resource allocation issue that should be addressed. Fingers crossed the process improves for USN/USMC in the future!
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Initial payment, if approved o/a the first half of the month *usually* hits the 1st of the month, if it's the latter half, then the 2nd 1st of the month, i.e., 15-45 days has been a pretty accurate DFAS average with that. Retro pay, can sometimes hit before the monthly payment; however, the average there has been 45-60 days out. Since they dated yours to May 2004, you should get back to 2008 when NDAA 2008 authorized CRSC for Ch 61 with less than 20 years AFS. If you were a 20-year AFS retiree, then, yes, it'll be back to 2004.
 
Congrats on your approval.

Someone really needs to do something about the NAvy’s 18 month processing time.

Everyone should be letting their congressional representatives know and asking why navy is 18 months, everyone else is 4.
 
Venom949 said:
Mid June-ish, 2024 - CRSC package submitted (Snail mail)
09 July 2024 - CRSC package/claim received by CRSC Board
06 Nov, 2025 - CRSC Approval
17 Nov, 2025 - CRSC Letter Received

Backpay - eventually?? I hope??

Everything was dated back to my retirement date.
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The CRSC has been approved, and that almost always means you will receive slope run your back pay if you are eligible.
 
Is Instrumentality of War synonymous with CRSC?

This is the Navy term in 1850.4

d. Caused by an instrumentalitv of war. Incurrence during a period of war is not required.


A favorable determination is made if the disability was incurred during any period of service as a


result of such diverse causes as wounds caused by a military weapon, accidents involving a military


combat vehicle, injury, or sickness caused by fumes, gases, or explosion of military ordnance,


vehicles, or material. However, there must be a direct causal relationship between the


instrumentality of war and tlie disability. For example, an injury resulting from a service member


falling on the deck of a ship while participating in a sports activity would not normally be


considered an injury caused by an instrumentality of war (the ship) since the sports activity and not


the ship caused the fall. The exception occurs if the operation of the ship caused the fall. See


paragraphs 3506 and 3507.
 
seaairmariner said:
Is Instrumentality of War synonymous with CRSC?

This is the Navy term in 1850.4

d. Caused by an instrumentalitv of war. Incurrence during a period of war is not required.


A favorable determination is made if the disability was incurred during any period of service as a


result of such diverse causes as wounds caused by a military weapon, accidents involving a military


combat vehicle, injury, or sickness caused by fumes, gases, or explosion of military ordnance,


vehicles, or material. However, there must be a direct causal relationship between the


instrumentality of war and tlie disability. For example, an injury resulting from a service member


falling on the deck of a ship while participating in a sports activity would not normally be


considered an injury caused by an instrumentality of war (the ship) since the sports activity and not


the ship caused the fall. The exception occurs if the operation of the ship caused the fall. See


paragraphs 3506 and 3507.
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DD Form 2860 has all the definitions on the last page of the form, this is the only definition to go by:

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