I reenlisted in July of 2005 for germany for 4 years and received an SRB of 10,000, in my contract it only gaurantees me a year out here in Germany. I am now pregnant and was looking into getting out on pregnancy it would be a voluntary chapter. I was wondering if there is a certain amount of time you have to stay in, in order not to have to pay the SRB back, if so what is the time? If not how would they take that money back?

If you reenlisted for 4 years and you'll serve 1 of those years, they will recoup 3 years worth (or 75%) of the bonus.

You'll get No Pay Dues for some time and if you'll be chaptered before you pay the bonus back, they will garnish your wages or hold your tax returns until the money is paid back. The military will get it's money back.

I am currently looking into applying for Psyops. I also received an SRB about a year ago. On the USAREC website it says that if I transfer to Psyops, I have to pay back the unearned portion of my bonus. If I reclass, will the Army let me make a payment plan, or do I have to come up with all of the money?

Did you receive a MOS bonus or a deployed bonus?

If you received a MOS bonus, and it was not a lump sum, I am not for sure how the finance office would recoup. The reason I say this is because over the past two years, all reenlistment bonuses have been paid in a lump sum payment and rules have been changing.

If you bonus was to be recouped, you could ask to have it taken out over a 12-month period, but this is something that is to be worked out with the local finance office.

I reenlisted while in Iraq in 2005 for a non MOS specific SRB bonus. The re-enlistment was for six years I have currently served three. I am now being invluntarily seperated due to family care plan. Will I have to pay the remainder of the bonus back and if so I have been told that there are certain involuntary seps that do not require repayment of SRB bonuses. If this is true I would like to know what they are.

You will not be required to pay back the bonus.

Hi SSG I need to know where I can find that info , me and a fellow soldier were both told we had to pay back our bonuses we are both involuntary chpater family care plan, they said if our bonuses were coded?? a certain way we had to pay them back how can we fight this not that I want to fudge over the goverment but we both just found ourselves unemployeed and I can barely pay my rent more or less the bonus back, I might actually have to file bankruptcy Please help if you can

I am in the same situation. This is what I have found:
When you are separated for a family care plan it is done according to AR 635-200 ch 5-8: Convenience of the government, involuntary separation due to parenthood. As a general rule, bonuses are recouped for voluntary separations or separations due to misconduct. However. . . there is a long list of other circumstances in which the government can get its money back. These are explicitely stated in DOD Financial Management Regulation Volume 7a, chapter 9 blah blah blah. Essentially, they recoup your bonus if you are separated for parenthood. If you find other info, I'd love to know about it. At this time, however, I am wondering: How do I go about adjusting my previous years taxes since I now all of a sudden have incurred a significant debt (which includes the amount of money taken out originally in taxes - meaning I have to pay the army back the taxes the irs took out)?

I don't have a regulation for you but I know when I was discharged due to my family care plan falling through I wasn't required to pay back any of my bonus and I still had 2 years left on my enlistment....

Do you by any chance know your SPD code?

DoD Financial Management Regulation, Volume 7A, Chapter 9, Section 090503. Reasons for Recoupment (Page 20).

EXCEPTIONS: Hardship and dependency separations are considered involuntary for the purposes of this paragraph and do not require recoupment of unearned portions of a bonus.

Hardship (ch6?)and dependancy are different than being chaptered for parenthood (ch 5-8). The regulation specifically states reason for recoupment #10. Parenthood.