far from the only but when other agencies do it it's usually defense/ct related
but with rare exception no one missed a pay day, les looked odd for most because in many cases the first week was paid on the 7th or 8th then the remainder on the 15th
part of the reason that people - and by people i generally mean lazy fucking dependents who do nothing at home and want their husbands to deploy in order to buy new furniture, fucking cunts - were all onoz panic is because a lot of us have allotments for housing and other major bills that come out directly from dfas before even going to the personal account so even if you had money saved it up it required additional paperwork to pay things that are supposed to be covered by those allotments
also, the other factor was that a LOT of people in uniform have shitty personal financial management. I wanted to choke a dumbass i was working with at the time because he was raging about it when the only reason he's broke is because he wastes all his money on stupid shit