They told me to contact the Fort I left and so they transfer me to their bank to file a dispute,and the lady working there,said the dispute would be transferred back to DAFAS,but it feels very complex doing all this,after my drill sergeants told me I had nothing to worry about,and I fear my dispute will be rejected,and I don’t have the money to pay back. I really need help here,because I have a good credit score,and I don’t want them taking all my money I make in the future.
The DAFAS sent me a letter two days ago that said I owe $837.97 on part of the letter and $50 on the other part. Apparently because of leave time,and everyone told me 5 months when I left on a General Honorable Discharge,that I wouldn’t pay back nothing.I already contacted them(continued⬇️)
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If you don’t want it to hit your credit, call and set up a payment plan. Say you can’t afford it and ask about hardship and see if they can lower your payments to as low as possible. Then start the forgiveness part, if it is forgiven you will get the money back you paid to it. But if you do nothing, it will ballon with fees and penalties and be reported to the credit bureau and then go to a collection agency which will add their own fees and penalties.
Pay it back. It’s your debt unless you can show that you weren’t overpaid.
This is pretty common. DFAS will just come out of the blue demanding money after you separate and not providing any proof or reasoning but will garnish your wages for it. I know one guy that was being paid for 2.5 years after leaving the Corps. He notified dfas multiple times, they said they couldn’t do much about it. Sure enough after that 2.5 years, they come asking for 100k plus back (which he was prepped for).
But still DFAS can suck it because if they send that bill to the wrong person, it’s very likely they may do something irreversible. Don’t even get me started trying to collect cash that they owe you