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  United States Department of DefenseNews ReleaseOn the web: http://www.defenselink.mil/releases/2003/nr20030814-0368.htmlMedia contact: media@defenselink.mil or +1 (703) 697-5131 Public contact: http://www.dod.mil/faq/comment.html or +1 (703) 428-0711   No. 600-03 IMMEDIATE RELEASE August 14, 2003 DoD Statement on Family Separation Allowance and Imminent Danger Pay In April, after the President's Budget was submitted, Congress authorized an increase in both the Family Separation Allowance (on a worldwide basis) and Imminent Danger Pay and legislated that these increases would expire on Sept. 30, 2003.  The department is aware of the problem that would result for those serving in Iraq and Afghanistan if these allowances were...

My wife's sister was speaking with her this morning and she mentioned that the military has reduced or eliminated my brother in law's hazardous duty pay. She said it was around $300.00/mo reduction. This started a couple of weeks ago. She said the military is saying that since the war is tecnically over that Hazardous Duty Pay will no longer be provided. Can anyone tell me if this is true and give me more specifics. My Brother in law is in the RI Army National Guard. I tried to find information about it on the web, but the information that...

WASHINGTON, Aug 14 (Reuters) - Moving to quash a political firestorm, the Pentagon on Thursday denied that it will cut the pay of nearly 160,000 U.S. troops in Iraq and Afghanistan by $225 on Sept. 30 when special military pay hikes approved by Congress are due to expire. Defense officials said that even if lawmakers do not reinstate increases passed in April in both "imminent danger pay" and "family separation allowances," the Pentagon will make up the pay losses to troops in those countries in other ways. Undersecretary of Defense David Chu answered sharp criticism from Democratic presidential candidates over...

WASHINGTON (Talon News) -- Pentagon officials met Thursday with reporters to "put to rest" a "burgeoning rumor" that the defense department is planning to reduce compensation for those serving in Iraq and Afghanistan. "That is not true. We are not going to reduce their compensation," said David Chu, under secretary of defense for personnel and readiness. "There is an open issue about how we're going to do that which depends on exactly how the conference report in the Congress comes out on some technical allowance issues, but the bottom line is we will at least maintain the compensation of those...