AF: Fewer Travel-Card Deadbeats

More Airmen are paying their government travel card bills on time, allowing the Air Force to reach what many believed was an unattainable goal set by the Department of Defense, an Air Force official said. “We met our goal by lowering our delinquency rate below 2 percent for two consecutive months,” said Mike Bilbrey, who oversees the Bank of America charge card program. “That’s an incredible accomplishment.” The goal for the Air Force and other government agencies that use travel cards is to keep the number of delinquencies under 2 percent. By having less than 2 percent delinquent accounts, the Air Force betters the current commercial sector delinquency account rate of 4.7 percent and is in better standing than other DOD agencies, he said.