MoD sued over pay cock-up

For months now the Ministry of Defence's new £269million payroll system supplied by EDS has been incorrectly paying thousands of service personnel (including troops on the frontline). Needless to say the vast majority of errors were underpayments with pay packets being hundreds of pounds short.

Things had got so bad for one RAF officer whose pay arrears hadn't been sorted out for seven months that he has just sued the MoD and won his case. Let's hope that this drastic action encourages the bureaucrats and EDS to get their fingers out and clear the backlog before more legal cases have to be brought against them.

Typical also of the cavalier way in which the civil servants in the MoD treat our servicemen and women is that for many of them the vaunted £2,300 operational bonuses have still to be paid ...... months after they have returned from operations! No doubt the MoD will be paying interest on top of the bonuses when they eventually get round to paying them out. No doubt too there will be no delay at all when the civil servants' own bonus are due!

Link> The Telegraph: RAF officer sues MoD over pay fault - and wins
Link> MoD underpays 50,000