Combat-Related Injury & Rehabilitation Pay (CIP)
Effective May 15 2008, the Pay and Allowance Continuation (PAC) program has replaced CIP. CIP was an entitlement payable prior to May 15 2008 at up to $430 a month. Eligible Wounded Warriors already receiving HFP are paid $205 a month. Service Members who were medically evacuated out of a combat zone and considered “hospitalized” were entitled to CIP. For the purposes of CIP entitlement, a Wounded Warrior is considered hospitalized if he/she is admitted as an inpatient or is receiving extensive rehabilitation as an outpatient while living in quarters affiliated with the military health care system.
Wounded Warriors are still eligible to claim retroactive periods of CIP qualification. Contact your local finance office if you believe you should have earned CIP for a time period but did not receive the entitlement.
Pay and Allowance Continuation (PAC)
As of May 15 2008, the Pay and Allowance Continuation (PAC) program replaced CIP. Members of the Regular or Reserve Components who, in the line of duty, incurred a wound, injury, or illness while serving in a combat operation or a combat zone, while serving in a hostile fire area, or while exposed to a hostile fire event (regardless of location), and are hospitalized for treatment of the wound, injury, or illness shall continue to receive the pay and allowances he/she received at the time of hospitalization. These entitlements include special and incentive pays, bonuses, and the daily incidental expense portion of temporary duty allowance authorized for members deployed in a combat operation or combat zone. This entitlement may continue for up to 12 months.
To be eligible, the member must have been serving wounded, ill, or injured in a combat operation or a combat zone, a hostile fire area, or while exposed to a hostile fire event, and is hospitalized for treatment of such wound, injury, or illness. The member may be considered hospitalized if their orders indicate attachment or assignment to a medical/patient unit for duty. Examples of such units include Military Treatment Facilities (MTF), Warrior Transition Units (WTU), Community Based Warrior Transition Units (CBWTU), VA Polytrauma Centers, and the SOCOM Care Coalition.
PAC program eligibility terminates on the last day of the month during which any of the following occur:
• Warrior has received the maximum of 12 months of PAC.
• Warrior is returned to full-duty status in other than a medical or patient unit (for example, WTU for the Army or Warrior Regiment for the Marines). Warrior will be deemed “returned for assignment to other than medical/patient unit for duty” when the member receives assignment orders to such other unit and is determined to be fit to perform full military duties.
• Warrior is discharged, separated, or retired (including temporary disability retirement
Health Professional Officers, certified current as of November 2003, in consultation with the warrior’s chain of command determine when a warrior is found to be able or unable to perform full military duties.
For more information, visit your local military finance office.