During Incapacitation Pay, who can manually award points?

• A. An Authorized Retirement Point Administrator
• B. The Member
• C. The Commander
• D. The Payroll Office

Answer: (A)

An Authorized Retirement Point Administrator is the person empowered to manually award retirement points. This role is specifically designated to adjust and update a service member’s retirement point record when automatic calculations aren’t possible or when corrections are needed, such as during incapacitation. The member can request adjustments, but cannot grant points themselves. The commander and the payroll office handle other duties—command leadership and payroll processing, respectively—but they don’t have authority to manually award retirement points.