European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - February 04, 1969, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 8 the stars and stripes tuesday february 4, 1969 it i As to thu editor ten Lii Hhill pay flan it wants present pay system missile units this is reference to the article by Marc Bluet i Hubbell pay compared with present 12.6%"Jan. 12 is. In comparing the computation for an e7 with More than 14 years service and one dependent two exemptions and the computation As indicated on my pay voucher i find a disagree ment. Here is the computation entitlements today Hubbell with 12.6% base pay $5,569.20 $8,902.00 $6,270.96 bad 1,378.80 1,378.80 subsistence 431.80 481.80 clothing Alws. 82.80 82.80 total pay $7,512.60 $8,902.00 $8,214.39 deductions income tax $631.80 $1,154.24 $1,003.35 social Security 245.04 291.34 include. Above ret contribute 287.29 total deduct. $876.84 $1,732.87 91,003.35 Cash take Home $6,635.76 $7,169.13 97,211.01pay the above does not include the tax advantage As indicated in the is Story because it would not appear on my voucher and does not affect my present take Home pay. The Story in the is did no take the following facts into consideration government quarters willbe assessed by Independent assessors in each area. They will determine How much rent should be charged for the quarters in relation to housing costs in the local  As i see it utilities will also be extra. This being the Case it will in mos cases be More than the bad we now receive. Also in most cases the Cost for quarters will not be equal but different from area to area. I have seen nothing about allowing the payment for unused leave upon , personnel re enlisting Are permitted to receive pay ment for unused leave time. Reenlistment Bonus will also be stopped. The charge for inpatient de pendent care in military hospitals will increase from $1.75 Aday to $5 a Day for the first 10 Days. Exchanges and commis Saries would be put on a More self sustaining basis costing approximately $105 million additional per year. Items Wouldhave to be increased in Price to support the additional Cost. Considering the above and the computation of my voucher i would lose under the Hubbell pay plan As i see it. The pay grades e6 and e7,As stated in other publications will not gain by the plan outcome out even. If this is True Why should 1 not receive a raise under the Hubbell plan while others do when one considers retire ment and other benefits i would rather stay under the present pay plan with the 12.6 per cent . 1. C. James f. Siegel bad Stoelz Germany editor s note there Are three reasons for the disagree ment our Man Huet did not in clude in his table the $82.80 for clothing allowance you did. He did t because the Hubbel committee in its proposal does not consider clothing allowances a part of your present salary but a no compensation per Sonal Cost S.C. As dislocation and the overseas station allow ances. In other words Accord ing to the committee you Are not Given clothing allowance As pay for the work you  pay voucher shows hut $631.80 is being withheld from your pay for Federal income tax but that docs not mean that you will have to pay that much in taxes. According to i Tiet s table which is Correct you will Only have to pay $588.09 you have a refund coming when you file. Effective Date of he change to salary will be computed in current  to your question Why you As an e7 should not receive raise under the Hubbell plan while others do adm. Lestere. Hubbell who headed the in j Aman my Vila Stilu Liv Trudl Llev since your pay voucher was pay study has been quoted As made out in 1968, the social Security deduction of $245.04 was figured at 4.4 per cent. The new figure As of Jan. 1969, used for deducting social Secu Rity tax and the one used by Hunt in his table is 4.8 percent. If you make the necessary adjustments you will find no Dis  you have not seen anything on it the Hubbell proposal does allow for payment of unused leave upon  plan recommends that entitlement to payment for unused accrued leave begins to accrue at the salary rate effective on the Date of the conversion to the salary system. Payment for unused accrued leave in excess of that accrued since the saying that servicemen ingrates e6 and e7 Are presently in closer pay comparability As defined by his panel to civilians than those in other enlisted grades. One of the two policy decisions made by the panel at the outset of the study was to concentrate on the principles and concepts of military compensation rather than try to justify a military pay  the other was no service Mem Ber was to suffer any net reduction in total pay As a result of the study s recommendations. Also on the specific goals of the study was to provide a fair and equitable relationship be tween military compensation and that of civilians with  apparently the panel feels this was done. I think the men assigned Tomany missile battalions in us a eur would like to know How the Hubbell plan would affect them.1 submit information from my last pay voucher As an example of what i make now entitlements base pay $278.70 bad 105.00 pro pay 3 100.00 separate rations 40.92 clothing allowance 4.80 total $529.42 deductions Soli $ 2.00 Pica 12.26 income tax 18.70 total 9 32.96 total entitlement 1629.42 lest total deductions 9 32.96 take Home pay monthly 9496.46 note that my monthly taxable income is $378.70 total the above figures for year and take into consideration that i my wife and three Chil Dren Are receiving medical care plus buying at reduced Price sin the yes and you will Proba concentrated sell Campaign May i compliment Marc Hueland the stars and stripes on your ability to stir me to writ ing my first letter to the editor after nearly 40 years of Reading newspapers. I refer to the article on the Hubbell pay Planin the Jan. 12 Issue. I have been amused Man times by the letters which peo ple write and the things that prompted them to do so. The stripes is generally a goo newspaper by any Standard and i had thought until recently that the letter charging influence in your editorial policy was sell in order to have so much sheer propaganda generated on the subject in our papers. Would prefer to think that this was done altruistically and witha sincere belief that it was for the Serviceman s  present pay system works. I know there Are a few isolated cases where some servicemen Don t understand the system make it a Semi annual commander s information hour subject. Trying to work out All the bugs and compensate the ineluctable inequities which will arise in attempting to implement the Hubbell plan and then written by some nut with an Mem  Pla the axe to grind. Now i m not so explain it to the servicemen would seem to be taking the sure. It is not the obvious errors inthe article which disturb me so much As does the transparent and concentrated Campaign be ing carried on to sell and even mislead the military Public the Hubbell plan. Your publication and the army times seem to be publishing almost unedited hand outs prepared in the Pentagon and distributed wit the instructions use As directed or sell Hubbell.". There is a Strong feeling among my contemporaries that somebody must have told some body to give the plan the hard hard Way out of an admittedly knotty problem. In one of your articles it said that comparisons Between the two proposals become confusing and misleading yet another article published had S.C. comparison and it was both. It would seem that it All depend son your Point of View How the comparison is slanted. Strip Sand other Semi official publications push the party line tha Hubbell is Good and the tax comparison even the 10 percent surcharge oversight and other confusion factors in changes to come your Chart tend to support that viewpoint. Also by holding the retirement Deposit for a Man and allowing him to Cash in at eight or 10, or whatever number of years Short of retirement the military will be in effect paying him to get out of the service. In order to present a True picture of the two proposals a picture that the average serv iceman can understand forget All those figures on tax advantage imputed retirement vested retirement Deposit  stick to the simple facts How much base pay allow ances deductions and How much Cash you will Lay in his hand on pay Day. Most of us career men Al ready have our retirement de posit accumulated and we know How to Cash it in serve honorable for 20-plus years at decent wage with Cost of living raises and promotions As de served and retire in the manner that we have been promised an counted on for As Long As we have been in the . Sgt. Merrill p. Phillips Schwa Ebisch Gemuend editor s note sell we Hope you read Huet s explainer on the i Hubbell plan in Jan. 29editions of is. There s More to come. Bly agree that i am presently making at least $8,000 a year. I reenlisted for six years Las april and received $6,000 in Bonus under vrb3. Also i willbe getting a raise in april 9 when i go Over three year service and it looks Likely i hat there is a Chance that my mos will increase its pro pay to $130 per  Don t see How the Ilu Boll plan would help me or others like me at All. I think that be would like to have the 12. I raise instead. I know that the missile trained men Are few in number when compared to the total number in the service but i also think that the Hubbell Planis overlooking the highly skilled personnel who Are so vital to Theair defense All Over the world. I would feel better about my future in the army if i can be proven wrong by a comparison with my salary As shown above. The men in these Fields ire highly trained with schooling varying from 12 to 52  of us chose this Field be cause of the Good training i electronics and the possibility of earning a larger salary p2or p3. I would like a compari son made so that i might bettor understand How i and Many others like me would gain under the Hubbell plan. Spec. 5 Frank j. Kelly or. Editor s note the Coin plex Hubbell plan is far from being enacted and some de sense department officials have expressed doubt that it will readopted this year. The 12.6 per cent Basic pay increase however is in a much better position since Mendel Rivers d-s.c., chairman of the House armed services com Mittee recently said that he raise would be coming. Under the Hubbell proposal you As an e5 with three years of service would receive $6,583yearly salary or $548.58 monthly. You would also draw you present pro pay of $100 per month or the $150 should your mos be Given the increase. Your total annual pay would then be $7,783 All of which will be  addition to the Federal tax you May have to pay a stat tax depending if your Home state has one and social secur Ity and 6.5 per cent retirement  the Hubbell proposal you would no longer receive theban separate rations and clothing allowances. We urge All fellow enlisted men to make their views known to their congressmen on the Hubbell pay plan. We know of the f a v o r i s propaganda carried out by the various newspapers which have failed to show us the True Pic Ture. Remember the taxes Weill have to pay and the exemptions we will lose without mentioning the changes to come. We predict that once the Hub editor s note thesis the second full Page of letters dealing with the Hubbell pay plan. To Morrow we will print thelast of a representative sampling of letters weave received on he plan then close this Page tothe s u b j e c t for the moment at least. Bell pay plan is approved More changes will be forthcoming under which we will have to serve 30 years before retire ment. Then will come the stumble plan under which we will be paying for medical services and finally the Jungle plan under which we will repaying them for our services. All this without asking for our views. ,. It is easy to see How the present pay system can become outdated but a careful com Parison will show the disadvantages of Hubbell which Are Many. A. Sgt. Enrique r. Reyes to. Sgt. James e. Bombings. Sgt. Roy f. Burns to. Sgt. James l. Wrights sgt Vergil a Hurst to. Sgt. 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