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Title: Army okays hardship pay for extended deployments
Post by: rangerrebew on January 13, 2021, 11:38:36 am

Army okays hardship pay for extended deployments

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Posted On January 12, 2021 06:38:35

The Army is reinstating a program to provide its personnel a temporary pay bump for deployments longer than nine months.

Sgt. Maj. of the Army Michael Grinston announced the change over the weekend, calling the move a way to ease the burden on personnel as the Army continues to work on ways to “create more predictable deployment cycles.”

Some 180,000 Army active-duty, National Guard, and reserve personnel remain mobilized or forward-deployed, according to Army officials. Known as “hardship duty pay-tempo,” the new benefit will dole out up to $495 a month for personnel whose deployments have been extended past nine months.

https://www.wearethemighty.com/articles/army-hardship-pay-extended-deployments/ (https://www.wearethemighty.com/articles/army-hardship-pay-extended-deployments/)