Originally Posted by
rickair7777
Less than two weeks ago. The navy reserve prefers not to deal with the hassle of issuing gov CC's to SELRES, so even those of us who travel a lot generally don't have them. Also there is still a middleman on processing travel claims in the navres...they go to your NOSC first, to be lost, misplaced, delayed, rerouted, returned for technical reasons, etc.
They are already hassling me about not clearing my travel claim, even though they had it in their hot little hands the day after I returned...this has been business as usual since 1994.
Whatver you want say about navy FTS...at least they are consistent.
When I did have a gov CC, I had to pay any interest accumulated while my travel claim was delayed...is this still the case?
They are actually CHARGE cards, not CREDIT cards. You are not supposed to leave a balance. All charges are due by the first billing cycle. BoA will work with units and individual card carriers to help defer the charges, but you can imagine how hard that is to do from a phone tent in Iraq
. Most claims are settled in time, but more than a few drag out for months. Servicemembers are required pay the balance in full regardless if they have been reimbersed by the gov't. I have seen many young (and not so young) Marines get busted for this. Just to give you an example of how bad it can get, it took me almost two YEARS to settle my last deployment travel claim, and I was once the squadron fiscal officer!