ADP Systems: Army and Air Force Military Retired Pay Systems Can Be Improved

摘要

The report reviews selected automated and manual control procedures within the Army and the Air Force reitred pay automated systems. These systems pay over $12 billion each year to more than one million retirees and annuitants. According to federal laws, the military services must monetarily offset, that is, reduce, retirees' pay when retirees are concurrently paid disability compensation by the Veterans Administration, wages for employment by certain federal agencies or the military, or allowances received for post-retirement military reserve duty. It was found that these systems were accurately processing retired and annuitant pay for the large majority of transactions reviewed. Identified discrepancies were caused primarily by manual errors and underutilization of available computer matching controls, which resulted in pay offsets not being applied by the military finance centers.