[jrarredondo]

Two things are striking: - The amounts under debate are small - The DFAS agency's budget is huge (1.36B)

Why not eliminate the agency altogether? If we divide $1.36B by the number of active military members 1,429,995, that results in $951 / active military personnel.

If we assume payment issues happen to 10% of the military, then that means we can just institute a rule that would give every soldier up to $9,510 in free "payment error insurance."

But I guess having a government body of 12,000 people with the task of giving soldiers a hard time makes more sense to some federal bureaucrat.

[gwern]

> If we assume payment issues happen to 10% of the military, then that means we can just institute a rule that would give every soldier up to $9,510 in free "payment error insurance."

Sounds like another scandal just waiting to happen.