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The Service concerned must order the deductions and collections from a member's pay according to the following precedence:
- Reduction of pay entitlement:
- Losses of pay entitlement take precedence over all items for deduction or collection:
- Forfeiture
- Reduction for educational benefit under "Montgomery G.I. Bill"
- Reimbursement to United States:
- Amounts collected for deposit to the credit of the United States Treasury, in the following order:
- Federal Insurance Contribution Act tax
- Deductions for Armed Forces Retirement Homes
- Federal Income Tax Withholding (this includes any amounts voluntarily authorized by member in excess of the minimum withholding required)
- Deductions for Servicemembers' Group Life Insurance (SGLI), Family SGLI, and Traumatic SGLI
- State income tax withholding
- Involuntary repayment of indebtedness to the United States:
- Routine pay adjustment
- Repayment of advances of pay/allowances or advances of travel
- Other collections (overpayments of pay or allowances outside the scope of a routine pay adjustment)
- Repayment of public funds entrusted to an accountable member or funds obtained by any member through fraud, larceny, embezzlement, or other unlawful means
- Clothing allowance charges
- Transportation charges
- Subsistence charges
- Government property lost or damaged
- Telephone or telegraph charges
- Damage to assigned housing due to negligence or abuse
- Indebtedness to a Commissary, DoD contracted Military Banking Facility overseas, or other appropriated fund activity for an uncollectable check or defaulted loan
- Unpaid hospital bills for medical services furnished a dependent
- Compensation or stipend payments received by a medical officer from state, county, municipal, or privately owned hospitals for medical services
- Jury duty fees received by a member
- Amounts due other Uniformed Services or departments or agencies outside DoD, including court judgments
- Garnishment for alimony and child support payments
- Statutorily-required child and spousal support allotments
- Remittances to an individual or agency by disbursing officer making deductions as follows:
- Deductions for rental of premises occupied by dependents
- Deduction for payment for damages to private property
- Court-ordered bankruptcy payments under Chapter 13 of the revised Bankruptcy Act
- Indebtedness to a nonappropriated fund activity
- Amounts due Service relief society (Army Emergency Relief, Air Force Aid Society, Navy-Marine Corps Relief Society, or Coast Guard Mutual Assistance) only at final separation
- Voluntary repayment of indebtedness to United States in order specified by the member
- Involuntary allotment for commercial debts
- Payments to TSP in the following order:
- TSP loan repayments
- TSP deductions
- Roth TSP deductions
- TSP catch-up deductions
- Allotments
- Payments made to an allottee by the United States or when a savings bond has been issued before the date amounts due a member are to be disbursed in the following order:
- Emergency support of dependent
- Government insurance (discretionary allotment)
- Repayment of individual indebtedness or for payment to an individual or financial organization for disposition as authorized by the allotter (discretionary allotment)
- Purchase of United States savings bonds
- Donation to charity drives
- Other discretionary allotments
- Internal Revenue Service levy for delinquent Federal income taxes
- Court-Martial fine |