So DH is national guard. He didn't like active duty enough to stay but he liked it enough to want that connection so that's where he ended up. He is a police officer now. Yeah he makes a decent amount of money and we live that way, working on saving up an 6 month emergency fund and paying off credit cards. All that stuff. We just bought a house last summer. Everything was looking up.
Then he was deployed on short notice... and took a big pay cut.For the 2 months he was stateside for training we were having to dip into our savings to cover everything, just waiting for him to go over seas. With all the extra deployment pay plus his promotion we would be breaking about even from where we were before. So things would be back on track once we ride out that first little bit. Not a huge deal.
Now that he's there, he still hasn't been promoted. There's a whole group of them that have orders for it but they are waiting, for whatever reason. He should have had his SGT rank at the beginning of April. Still nope, so there's orders for it there but he isn't even getting paid for it. :angry:
He checked his next paycheck (we can online) today and it still doesn't have the extra combat pay and such on it, just housing allowance and family separation. It covers things a bit but not everything. And there goes our savings. :thud: And we're still short. Credit card payments are just going to have to wait.
I'm working on selling stuff. I've been doing what I can to save money but still, with a house, bills and three boys to feed there's not much more I can cut that hasn't been already! I'm already canceling cable as soon as I pay the next bill. Although that doesn't help me much right now.
I've called both of his credit cards about the Service member's Civil Relief Act to lower his interest rates. I don't qualify for it on mine because he's not on the account. This will help us in the long run but again not right now.
I am super proud of my husband and what he does for our country but I also feel that the military does not pay anything near what these men and women deserve.
I'm just so annoyed at this. First I'm upset because my husband is gone for a year and now I'm having to deal with money issues because the Army can't get its crap together and pay my husband what he should be getting paid. Hello Murphy.
The upside is when they do finally give him the money we'll get all the back pay too. It just really really sucks right now.
Then he was deployed on short notice... and took a big pay cut.For the 2 months he was stateside for training we were having to dip into our savings to cover everything, just waiting for him to go over seas. With all the extra deployment pay plus his promotion we would be breaking about even from where we were before. So things would be back on track once we ride out that first little bit. Not a huge deal.
Now that he's there, he still hasn't been promoted. There's a whole group of them that have orders for it but they are waiting, for whatever reason. He should have had his SGT rank at the beginning of April. Still nope, so there's orders for it there but he isn't even getting paid for it. :angry:
He checked his next paycheck (we can online) today and it still doesn't have the extra combat pay and such on it, just housing allowance and family separation. It covers things a bit but not everything. And there goes our savings. :thud: And we're still short. Credit card payments are just going to have to wait.
I'm working on selling stuff. I've been doing what I can to save money but still, with a house, bills and three boys to feed there's not much more I can cut that hasn't been already! I'm already canceling cable as soon as I pay the next bill. Although that doesn't help me much right now.
I've called both of his credit cards about the Service member's Civil Relief Act to lower his interest rates. I don't qualify for it on mine because he's not on the account. This will help us in the long run but again not right now.
I am super proud of my husband and what he does for our country but I also feel that the military does not pay anything near what these men and women deserve.
I'm just so annoyed at this. First I'm upset because my husband is gone for a year and now I'm having to deal with money issues because the Army can't get its crap together and pay my husband what he should be getting paid. Hello Murphy.
The upside is when they do finally give him the money we'll get all the back pay too. It just really really sucks right now.