Retirement Points Accounting Manager (RPAM) SGT Catherine MacKinnon

1. Retirement Points Accounting Manager (RPAM)SGT Catherine MacKinnon Phone: 615-313-0596 Fax: 615-313-0773 catherine.mackinnon@us.army.mil TNARNG ELEMENT JFHQS ATTN: JFHQ-TN-PER-SIB(RPAM) HOUSTON BARRACKS PO BOX 41502 NASHVILLE, TN 37204-1502

2. Retirement Points Accounting Management(RPAM) RETIREMENT POINTS EQUALS RETIREMENT PAY

3. Reading the RPAM STATEMENT

4. Reading the RPAM STATEMENT Rank and Name SSN Soldiers Unit and unit address Unit UIC and PRN

5. Reading the RPAM STATEMENT Date Generated Anniversary Year Ending also referred to as your RYE date Basic Active Service Date Highest Grade Held YES means has 20-year letter. NO means does not have 20-year letter

6. AYE/RYE Date

7. Reading the RPAM STATEMENT Beginning Date of Service Ends one year minus a day from the beginning date. This will equal one year. Each line is not necessarily one year and will not add up unless it is 12 months (one year)

8. Reading the RPAM STATEMENT Military Status Identifier-designates the service IDT are the drills/ATAs/RMAs /Ets/AFTPs Membership points-15 per year

9. Reading the RPAM STATEMENT Correspondence Points- 1 point for 3 credit hours Active Duty Points

10. Correspondence Courses Login Website: http://www.train.army.mil/

11. Correspondence Courses Historical Enrollments Courses

12. Correspondence Courses Expand all the + signs.

13. Reading the RPAM STATEMENT VS means verified Service. If it is a “B”, supporting documentation needs to be submitted to correct it to a V. **No points are being accounted for if there is a B**

14. Reading the RPAM STATEMENT Total Career Points is the total of IDT/Membership/ACCP and AD Points.

15. Reading the RPAM STATEMENT Total Points for Retirement Pay is the amount used to calculate your retirement pay. This column is less than Total Career Points because it follows the 60/75/90/130 CAP set by Congress.

16. MAX INACTIVE POINTS

17. Reading the RPAM STATEMENT Creditable Service for Retirement Pay. This is the number of GOOD Years/Months/Days you have earned for retirement. You need 50 points minimum in each AYE before it is a GOOD Year.

18. Reading the RPAM STATEMENT From 19860801 to 19860331 is only 8 months, so the new beginning date opens and ends on the AYE 19870731, giving the soldier 01years/00months/00days for ret. Pay.

19. Reading the RPAM STATEMENT This is an open record and it will not add to the totals until the AYE Closes. This is the number of total Active Federal Service Days This is the total points for Retirement Pay.

20. Reading the RPAM STATEMENT Number of years/months/days for Retirement Pay. REMEMBER, IT MUST SAY 20 YEARS BEFORE YOU ARE ELIGIBLE FOR A 20 YEAR-LETTER.

21. Reading the RPAM STATEMENT Detailed part of the 23A These designate the morning or afternoon periods. This is the Drill Type These are the drill dates that the soldier performed.

22. Reading the RPAM STATEMENT IDT Codes

23. Reading the RPAM STATEMENT Detailed part of the 23A This is the type of active duty that was preformed. Active Duty Date Performed Number of day on Active Duty

24. Reading the RPAM STATEMENT Active Duty Codes

25. Correcting RPAM • To correct any information on the RPAM Statement, send • verifying documents to the address on the first slide. • Verifying Documents are • LES s • 1379s • DARP 249 • AF 526 • Correspondence completion notifications • MMPAs • 1059S

26. Documents that cannot be used to • verify RPAM POINTS: • TAX FORMS • W-2S • BANK STATEMENTS • TRAVEL VOUCHERS • ORDERS

27. 20-YEAR LETTER

28. 20-YEAR LETTER

29. 20-YEAR LETTERS • 20-Year letters are issued on once each month. (It is up to each state how often the letters will be issued). Tennessee • issues the letters twice a month if duties permit. • The original 20-year letter is mailed to the soldiers Home of • Record. (The address that is in SIDPERS) • A copy scanned and sent to IPERMS.

30. 20-YEAR LETTERS • 20-Year Letters are not issued in the middle of the AYE unless the soldier actually goes over 20 years of GOOD time in the middle of the AYE. • Soldiers who request discharge in the middle of the AYE and will have 20 GOOD years after the RPAM closes on the discharge date, will receive their 20 year letter AFTER they are discharged.

31. QUESTIONS??