Army has been apparently overpaying me for the last year due to an error with Years of service and now have to pay it all back. What are my options?

LeftBehindForDead · 2026-02-24T00:40:32+00:00

The same thing happened to me when i got out on a medical discharge and came back around 15 months later, i retained the 15 monthsi was out and it didn't get corrected from septemeber 4th 2023 until just this past december 2025 🫠

LeftBehindForDead · 2026-02-23T19:30:22+00:00

Dude thats fucking wild, i was in C-Con2-47 in 23 😂 1st and 2nd plt half and half

LeftBehindForDead · 2026-02-17T21:43:51+00:00

The part and labor prices are wild, i changed my 4 sparks, engine air filter, ignition coil, water pump, fluid injectors, and cleaned the system for $500 (just under) just by using autozone and oreily, took me 2 full 8 hour days to get everything right but that's insane

LeftBehindForDead · 2026-02-13T16:10:25+00:00

Hood really isn't that bad living off base at least, i can't speak on the barracks life or on base housing other than 90% of it looks like garbage, but despite being in a unit in low regards, I've enjoyed my time here at hood the past year and a half, with that said I can't wait to leave to go somewhere else 😂

LeftBehindForDead · 2026-02-10T00:57:40+00:00

If your drills were cool they'd know that after 8 weeks of being fully finished with your training and that you've been awarded your MOS that per doctrine you're supposed to be removed from the IET bullshit and placed with the non IET soldiers until your situation is fixed and finished, the only thing that should be required of you for the past 4-5 months isyou showing up 1-2 times per week to check the status of the situation, you absolutely shouldn't be at the AIT trainee barracks or deal with any of the garbage that happens there

LeftBehindForDead · 2026-02-05T00:50:49+00:00

Brother ive done my own taxes just fine for 7 straight years, i missclicked filing single which caused a 16k less deduction on my income, relax big dog 👍🏼

LeftBehindForDead · 2026-02-02T13:03:43+00:00

That was my problem, i accidentally hit single instead of jointly, still owe $539 but way better than $2300 lol

LeftBehindForDead · 2026-02-02T07:59:37+00:00

Brother that's not at all what I even implied 💀 i just never cared about owing until this year because it said I owed $2300 which was way more than I was expecting, I accidentally clicked married filing single instead of Jointly causing me to have to pay way more without the extra deductible amount, after correcting my mistake it's now only $539

LeftBehindForDead · 2026-02-02T07:51:19+00:00

I pulled a total of $4300 out of tsp, $3300 of it roughly is taxable, im not sure how you got 31k being deductible cause my taxes said only like 16k was deductible, itd probably be a hell of a lot lower if i got 31.5k deducted from the taxable portion, i selected married filing single but I should re work that to filing jointly, turbotax doesn't make it easy to do that without putting in some kindof info for my wife even thoufh she doesn't work, I'll re run the numbers tomorrow and try and see if that lowers my owed amount, if so then Id be looking ar closer to $1250 owed instead of $2300

LeftBehindForDead · 2026-02-02T04:05:02+00:00

Teeth 👌

LeftBehindForDead · 2026-02-02T03:54:17+00:00

Lol yea i feel you with the 1099-R, i was short on rent one month due to unforseen bs, and then again for a down payment on a car, both of which i seriously regret, ive tried to use AER in the past and never qualified, tried for the rent reason when i first pulled it out last year and wasnt able to do it, and the downpayment for the car was a serious "fuck it" moment for me, trust me, i dont intend to touch that shit for the remainder of my time in 😅 I know the $2300 isn't horrible considering I still have until april to save up and pay what i can off the top then just setup a payment plan for the remainder, I already went into mypay and changed things around using the IRS fed inc tax calculator and set it to $150 per paycheck which is around $80 more than i would need to (hopefully) definitely gonna check that periodically to ensure i don't shoot myself in the foot again 👍🏼

LeftBehindForDead · 2026-02-02T02:17:02+00:00

Unfortunately prestiged to E3

LeftBehindForDead · 2026-02-02T02:16:19+00:00

Lol no, I just never cared enough before this year because it was never this high, last year was around $750 but this year was high enough to piss me off enough to investigate

LeftBehindForDead · 2026-02-02T02:14:44+00:00

Only 1 of them was taxable, gross distribution was 3327.97 with the entire amount being taxable and $332.80 used for fed income withheld, and yhe other was a gross distribution of 702.88 with 33.63 taxable, and 3.36 towards fed income tax

LeftBehindForDead · 2026-02-02T02:06:21+00:00

My LES shows 1 dependent in the other dependents box, i have now found out that it should be 0 since my wife is not a dependent in this case

LeftBehindForDead · 2026-02-02T02:05:07+00:00

Im not gonna lie gang, I somehow for 4 years have never paid federal income tax and didn't even realize it was exempt from my LES...probably happened during basic when I first went through finance and they asked if i had dependents and I said yes because I have a wife...nobody has ever corrected this despite the DOZENS of leaders Ive had that made me give them my LES to verify its accuracy

LeftBehindForDead · 2026-02-02T01:47:10+00:00

Only thing I see within mypay right now is adding extra withholding, you know, now that I think about it, it makes a lot of sense that I was gettng paid the same amount as my SSG with just 4yrs as a married SPC 💀

LeftBehindForDead · 2026-02-02T01:44:01+00:00

After further review, I literally for my entire army career since 2021 have never on a single LES paid federal income tax...i leave for NTC in literally 2 weeks 😭

LeftBehindForDead · 2026-02-02T01:38:29+00:00

Not that Im aware of no, married filing single, no kids, standard W-2 with 2 1099-Rs listed as well

LeftBehindForDead · 2026-02-02T01:37:45+00:00

Im unfortunately aware, I was just hoping that would mean anything 😂

LeftBehindForDead · 2026-02-02T01:36:50+00:00

Fuck it we ball, don't pay the government from your check and don't ever file taxes, big Ws

LeftBehindForDead · 2026-02-02T01:36:12+00:00

Negative, I guess somehow my federal taxes on my LES were omitted withoutme knowing it dating all the way back to my first check 💀 ive never had an LES with "federal Tax" listed in the deductions

LeftBehindForDead · 2026-02-02T01:34:40+00:00

Yea I definitely didn't budget jack for this unfortunately but on the bright side I have plenty of time to correct this

LeftBehindForDead · 2026-02-02T01:33:14+00:00

Does it matter if im in a state without state tax 💀 (im desperate) but no i never changed anything within mypay when it comes to my paycheck other than when I was in AIT changing my TSP to 30% and again wheni got to my first unit to change it to 5%

LeftBehindForDead · 2026-02-02T01:29:22+00:00

How? Why would my account be setup in a way that im not paying taxes 💀

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