Who Processes Retirement Orders?

I am not sure if I am posting this in the right place, but anyone with knowledge or experience on this please respond.
Earlier this week I received 30% TDRL from FPEB and I accepted the rating. My question is who will process my retirement orders? I am a National Guard soldier that was mobilized for OIF III, and was injured while in Iraq. The injury is listed by the PEB as combat related, but I demobilized in 2006 and received a DD214 for that period of service. My PEBLO informed me that my retirement order will be coming from my unit, and when I contacted my unit admin, he said that they would be issue me an NGB 22 (National Guard equivalency to DD 214) and transfer me to the retired reserve list.
He also said that I would need to attend retirement and finance briefings which are held at Fort Lewis, WA. When I called to schedule the briefings, they told me I would need my retirement orders and DD 214 listing medical retirement. When I explained to them that I would not receive a DD 214 they said that I would not need the briefings since they are for LOS retirements and medical retirements from WTU.
I am confused on what type of retirement I will be receiving (National Guard or active duty), and my unit is equally as confused. I also want to know if my retirement pay will be based on my drill pay, or the pay I received while mobilized, and will I receive another DD 214 showing disability retirement.
My unit has the attitude of “wait and see what shows up in your bank account and then you will know what type of retirement it is”, but I prefer to plan my finances and I believe there must be some type of regulation guiding this process. If anyone has dealt with this, please let me know where I can find the information. Thanks
 
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Don't mean to be a downer, but good luck!!! Hubby is active duty. The Army extended his original separation date (Aug 23) to a new retirement date (Sept 25). That was in July. When we did his finance appt. at the end of July, no one had fixed the date and as far as the Army was concerned our pay ended as of Aug 23. We finally got confirmation that the date had been fixed as of this Wednesday Aug 6. However, finance has told us that they cannot give us a retirement paycheck amount becuase a separate DFAS handles that so we will not know our true amount until retirement DFAS processes the paperwork sometime after his retirement date in September-- they told them to give them at least one month. No one can tell us the date that we will get a retirement check either, just "probably about two months after your separation date, maybe sooner, but don't count on it." Finance here won't even tell us the amount we will get paid for his "cashed in leave" or the date that it will be deposited in our account. They won't even estimate the pay but will say that the date should be "about 10 days after separation, give or take 14 days." WHAT???? I'm a preplanner like you and I'm about to go nuts! Maybe someone can help you with the other questions and both of us with the paycheck question.
 
1MP4Life said:
I am not sure if I am posting this in the right place, but anyone with knowledge or experience on this please respond.
Earlier this week I received 30% TDRL from FPEB and I accepted the rating. My question is who will process my retirement orders? I am a National Guard soldier that was mobilized for OIF III, and was injured while in Iraq. The injury is listed by the PEB as combat related, but I demobilized in 2006 and received a DD214 for that period of service. My PEBLO informed me that my retirement order will be coming from my unit, and when I contacted my unit admin, he said that they would be issue me an NGB 22 (National Guard equivalency to DD 214) and transfer me to the retired reserve list.
He also said that I would need to attend retirement and finance briefings which are held at Fort Lewis, WA. When I called to schedule the briefings, they told me I would need my retirement orders and DD 214 listing medical retirement. When I explained to them that I would not receive a DD 214 they said that I would not need the briefings since they are for LOS retirements and medical retirements from WTU.
I am confused on what type of retirement I will be receiving (National Guard or active duty), and my unit is equally as confused. I also want to know if my retirement pay will be based on my drill pay, or the pay I received while mobilized, and will I receive another DD 214 showing disability retirement.
My unit has the attitude of “wait and see what shows up in your bank account and then you will know what type of retirement it is”, but I prefer to plan my finances and I believe there must be some type of regulation guiding this process. If anyone has dealt with this, please let me know where I can find the information. Thanks
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Does anyone know this answer????
 
You are TDRL. You will receive the TDRL orders from the PEB which I am assuming you already have. From there, your State Surgeon's Office should provide the completed packet to your state EPM (if enlisted) OPM (if officer). They will cut a TDRL order placing you in the retired reserves with a separation code of TD I believe. This code will be in SIDPERS and reflect to DFAS that you are TDRL and then you will be on HRC's book as a reserve retiree with periodic evals. One of two things can come of this at this point. A) you get better between your evals and then you have the chance of being brought back into the Guard or Reserves or... B) After 5 years, no change or you get worse and end up placed on PDRL. Beyond that, I have little else to give for information besides contacting your SSO and RPAM section. If you were in the CAARNG I would refer you over to a SSG Hanson as he handles our state's medical separations and retirements.
 
You will get a Chapter 61 retirement, which is a disability retirement, its not an active duty retirement or a reserve one. That's a bit of a non-answer, but for practical purposes, its an active duty retirement, that being the closest equivalent. It'll be based off active duty pay, or mobilized pay, not drill pay.

At JBLM, all Soldiers going through the IDES process are kinda considered WTU people, so pretty sure that's the briefing for you. Transition there should probably be able to get you DD214, I'd think. NG doesn't cut DD214s usually, since its a reflection of active duty time, you'd have to talk to an active duty base. This is FUBAR because you weren't supposed to be released from active duty until the PEB was concluded and then you get the DD214. Maybe they'll give you a DD215, which corrects the old dd214? Do you have a PEBLO?

Finance is generally not a good source of info on future payments, they just process problems for resolution. Each day of leave sold is worth 1/30 of your base pay at discharge. 30 days is one month of base pay. Final paycheck should come in a month, and they won't know the amount because they can't see if you have outstanding government debts which will be subtracted for it. My interpretation of their answer for when you see the final paycheck is, it'll take them 10 days to process your final pay check, then it will come out the next cycle (1st or 15th), explaining the +/- 14 days answer.

Retirement paycheck should be the average of 36 months of the highest amount of base pay * disability %. Its the high 3 base pay calculation that requires an overview of your account, that they won't do there, and so won't provide a number for you. My PEBLO provided me the amount however when I got my 199. My understanding is you won't have a break in pay as far as retirement check counts, its the VA pay that takes about 2 months to kick in.
 
Often times what happens with NG soldiers is that they will refrad thinking that the injury will heal and it might, but it can subsequently get worse and make them fall below retention standards and they are then sent through the MEB and PEB process. If they were put on orders for the process, they will get a 214 from the transition site. No orders... sadly no 214. National Guard HQs can, but often don't process the 214s because few people have adequate training in TRANSPOC. Case in point... I was the guy that was trained for my state. Now that I am no longer there... they are going to have to send the new boss to the school but I did give him a crash course and the training materials.
 
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