A committee of the U.S. Senate leaders said on Wednesday, the group will hold a hearing later this year in the U.S., after checking systemic problem of wages, a Reuters survey showed how widespread the Pentagon disrupt the lives of soldiers remuneration wrong.
, Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee Chairman Sen. Tom Carper said he found continued by the U.S. military and their families "deeply troubling problems facing the remuneration."
Carper emailed to Reuters in a statement said: "The (Defense) Department antiquated and inefficient financial system caused by improper payments, our troops and families unnecessary burden." Delaware Democrat, said he and the committee's senior Republican Senator Tom Coburn, "plans to hold hearings later this year to study the problem."
In a report released on Tuesday, Reuters found that errors affecting remuneration active and retired military personnel placed a number of examples, from soldiers to generals. It tracks the errors and incompatible old record keeping systems vast.
(See Reuters Special Report: Pentagon wage quagmire trap U.S. soldiers: reut.rs/16opM13)
Reuters reported that the Ministry of Defence error fault tracing its wider part of the money. The Pentagon report to Congress annually the book is in such chaos audit is impossible.
Coburn, in a separate statement said it was "unacceptable", the Army is still struggling with the question of wages. ", Put their lives on the line, our soldiers should not worry about whether they will receive compensation, they've won," Oklahoma Republican said. "Wage issues quickly became our troops morale problems and unnecessary distraction during deployment, financial mismanagement, this is no excuse."
In addition, members of Congress attended the House of Representatives hearing difficulties in tracking government spending complain about the army wage issues, and greater challenges at the Pentagon bad bookkeeping.
"Maybe we should remind everyone who served in the military, they should be very careful to check their pay stubs, because they can pay the salaries of the error ...... It is quite ridiculous, is not it?" Rep. Jackie Spey Jesus said that Democrats in the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee hearing.
Another Democratic Congressman Stephen Lynch said that the U.S. National Security Agency "Can you tell us how many times Aunt Margaret called Aunt Matilda, but you can not get the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) to do an audit - this is a black hole."
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