B-274195: Oct 8, 1996

The Defense Finance and Accounting Service requested a decision on whether a retired Army Reserve member was entitled to non-regular retired pay for a period preceeding the sixth antecedent anniversary of the date he became fully eligible for such pay. GAO held that the: (1) Army had no statutory duty to notify the member that he complied with the wartime active duty requirement for non-regular re...

B-274195: Oct 8, 1996

Was not required to be further notified by the service that he was eligible to retire when 10 U.S.C. Sec. 1331(c) was later amended to include his active duty period as a qualifying wartime period. A reservist who had reached age 60 was notified at the time that he had completed the requisite 20 years of service for non-Regular retired pay. He was not fully eligible for retired pay then because he...