PROCEEDINGS

	IN THE CASE OF: 

	BOARD DATE:           10 May 2000                   
	DOCKET NUMBER:   AR1999028546

	I certify that hereinafter is recorded the true and complete record of the proceedings of the Army Board for Correction of Military Records in the case of the above-named individual.  

	Mr. Carl W. S. Chun		Director	
	Mr. Robert J. McGowan		Analyst	

  The following members, a quorum, were present:

	Ms. Margaret K. Patterson 		Chairperson	
	Mr. George D. Paxson		Member	
	Mr. Thomas B. Redfern III		Member	

	The applicant and counsel if any, did not appear before the Board.

	The Board considered the following evidence:

	Exhibit A - Application for correction of military 
                records
	Exhibit B - Military Personnel Records (including
	            advisory opinion, if any)

FINDINGS:

1.  The applicant has exhausted or the Board has waived the requirement for exhaustion of all administrative remedies afforded by existing law or regulations.

2.  The applicant requests that her DD Form 214, Certificate of Release or Discharge From Active Duty, be corrected to reflect the correct amount of disability severance pay that she received.

3.  The applicant states that she received $7,682.40 in disability severance pay, but her DD Form 214 reflects $14,511.60.  In support of her application, she provides a copy of her DD Form 214 and a 5 April 1999 letter from the Defense Finance and Accounting Service (DFAS) – Indianapolis Center which shows the correct amount of disability severance pay.

4.  The applicant’s military records show that she enlisted in the Regular Army on 29 August 1995 and was separated on 27 September 1998 for a service-connected disability.  Her DD Form 214 indicates that her disability severance pay was $14,511.60.  The DFAS-Indianapolis Center informed her by letter that the disability severance pay was actually $7,682.40.

5.  Title 10, United States Code, section 1203, provides that soldiers determined to be unfit to perform their duties because of physical disability incurred while entitled to basic pay may be separated with severance pay.

CONCLUSIONS:

1.  The applicant was separated by reason of physical disability and was entitled to receive disability severance pay.

2.  The applicant’s DD Form 214 incorrectly reflects the amount of her disability severance pay as $14,511.60.

3.  The DFAS-Indianapolis Center correctly computed the amount of the applicant’s disability severance pay as $7,682.40.

4.  In view of the foregoing, the applicant’s records should be corrected as recommended below.

RECOMMENDATION:

That all of the Department of the Army records related to this case be corrected by issuing to the individual concerned a DD Form 215, Correction to DD Form 214, showing that she received disability severance pay in the amount of $7,682.40.

BOARD VOTE:  

__mkp__  __gdp___  __tdr____  GRANT AS STATED IN RECOMMENDATION

________  ________  ________  GRANT FORMAL HEARING

________  ________  ________  DENY APPLICATION

		__Margaret K. Patterson__
		        CHAIRPERSON

INDEX

CASE ID	AR1999028546	
SUFFIX		
RECON		
DATE BOARDED	20000510	
TYPE OF DISCHARGE		
DATE OF DISCHARGE		
DISCHARGE AUTHORITY		
DISCHARGE REASON		
BOARD DECISION	GRANT	
REVIEW AUTHORITY	DASA	
ISSUES         1.	100.0000	
2.	108.0000	
3.	128.0800	
4.		
5.		
6.