Originally Posted by
airborne_artist
And now the Marines in 'stan have to re-pay over-paid allowances.
telegraph report
"The morale of Royal Marines serving on the front line in Afghanistan has plummeted after a £3,000 allowance was deducted from their wages following a "dreadful blunder" by Royal Navy administrators."
"A Navy spokesman said it was "regrettable" that an error had been made when pay chiefs had incorrectly made briefings on pay allowances two years ago.
The new system was designed to simplify allowances and ensured Navy personnel were treated in the same way as RAF and Army."
Hmm, my reading of the article was that they're not getting a wedge they were told they were going to get, rather than they've been paid and now have to give it back. Looks like a traditional admin cockup (pusser's cockup as it's the Naval Service?) rather than directly related to JPA.