“In the beginning my first check took a month and the next was 3 weeks, then another 3 weeks…Checks will go from 3100 to 2400 and no explanation given.”
“Not one check has been the same,” said the source, who according to his military orders has been on OLS duty since October. Since the publication of our initial article, a whistleblower, different from the one who contacted us in October, recently disclosed issues for some soldiers who are being paid. However, it appears even those soldiers who are receiving paychecks are encountering issues.
#ONTIME PAYROLL SERVERS SERIES#
Our first article in this series focused on problems, while this article examines process, including how Texas soldiers are paid when assigned to missions like OLS. įor its part, the Governor’s office has been on notice since October. “They even called Kim to make sure I got the letter through her as well so we may need to give them a call so they take deep breath,” Hegar emailed Rob Coleman, director of the Comptroller’s Fiscal Management Division. Tracy Norris, Adjutant General of the Texas National Guard, to directly ask Texas Comptroller Glenn Hegar for help on October 18. Unfortunately, as Texas Scorecard reported in December, an unknown number of TNG troops involved in OLS were being paid late.Ī whistleblower’s allegations of “ rampant pay issues ” first made to Texas Scorecard in October, were confirmed by communications obtained through a Public Information Act request. of Public Safety to the state’s southern border. Essentially, OLS surged members of the Texas National Guard (TNG) and the Texas Dept. Greg Abbott’s pivot to border security following the Biden–Harris Administration’s abdication of strong border security measures. Issues in paying troops, identified last year, persist.Īs we previously reported, Operation Lone Star (OLS) is part of Gov. Texas soldiers are unnecessarily entangled in a train wreck of layered bureaucracies, political issues, staff turnover, and IT headaches.
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