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One of my buds a retired USAR officer turned 60 in April 2015, he had completed all the paperwork to start his pay last year. However on 1 May he got a notice from DFAS there was a 30-60 backlog. He finally got his first check (deposit) today. Anyone know about this? I could not find an article on it.

The Defense Department has decided to retire its 19-year-old retiree pay system written in “antiquated” computer code and replace it with a lower cost, easier to use application based on off-the-shelf technology. The Defense Retiree and Annuitant Pay System, or DRAS, maintains military pay accounts for more than 2.6 million military retirees, former spouses and survivor beneficiaries totaling $40 billion a year. The system was introduced in 1995 and is based on Common Business Oriented Language computer code of the time. DRAS uses “antiquated mainframe technology dating back to 1980 that has exceeded the end of its planned lifecycle,” the...

COLLEGE PARK, Md. - If it seems like a nightmare now, it started with a dream come true. Anna Viviano got into one of the best schools in the country, and as an ROTC recruit, she didn't have to pay a penny. "I talked to a couple recruiters and they were just like you can go to Vanderbilt for free," she recalled. And for two and a-half years, Viviano thrived -- second in her ROTC class and a near-perfect GPA. "I thought everything was going swimmingly -- was right on track to do what I wanted," she said. Then came...

Defense Finance and Accounting Service (DFAS) Retired and Annuitant Pay is working closely with national and regional banking and credit union organizations as well as the military services to make certain customers affected by Hurricane Katrina have timely and ready access to their pay.   DFAS officials explained that it is essential that military retirees and annuitants, who have relocated or changed their banking information, to contact DFAS Retired and Annuity Pay in one of the following ways:* Call 1-800-321-1080 Monday - Friday, 7 a.m. - 7:30 p.m. (Eastern).  Please have current address, banking data and beneficiary information available when you call;* Use...