MREC-10 · MILITARY RECORDS LIBRARY
Pay, Finance, Leave & Retirement-Point Records
MREC-10: Financial and status records showing pay, allowances, deductions, leave, travel reimbursement, special pay, debts, retirement points, and retired-pay computation.
What this record can establish
Amount and type of payment/deduction; effective period; leave balance; travel reimbursement; point credit; retired-pay transactions depending on record.
What it does not establish automatically
A pay statement may reflect a source personnel error. Payment does not always prove legal entitlement, and nonpayment does not by itself prove no entitlement existed.
Preservation package
LES/pay histories; finance cases; orders supporting entitlements; leave records; vouchers; debt notices; point statements; retirement computations; tax records.
Minimum source metadata
- Stable source ID and record class
- Creator or issuing office
- Document date and covered period
- Subject identifiers
- Repository and exact locator
- Provenance or acquisition note
- Proposition supported and express limits
- Evidence-status code and derivative/OCR/transcription lineage
Evidence testing
- Identity: Is the record tied to the correct person, unit, platform, or event?
- Chronology: Separate document date, effective date, event date, and covered period.
- Institutional purpose: Understand why the record was created and what it was designed to record.
- Corroboration: Seek independent records; copies and derivatives from one source do not create independence.
Evidence status key: D1 direct primary; D2 corroborated primary; S1 authoritative secondary; S2 credible secondary; I inference; C conflict; U unverified; N negative research result.
Connected Life Record chapters
- MLR-04 — Compensation & Financial Record
- MLR-06 — Career, Assignments & Deployment
- MLR-09 — Vehicles, Travel & Transportation
- MLR-11 — Separation & Transition
- MLR-12 — Retirement
- MLR-13 — Veteran Lifetime
- MLR-14 — Death
Related navigation guides
Retrieval and authority status
This page defines the evidence family and preservation method. Repository-specific access rules, privacy limits, request forms, retention schedules, service/era differences, and governing authorities must be verified for the particular record before treating retrieval instructions as final. Start with current official repositories and the linked Navigation Guides.
