Do you have a reference for that statement? I've never heard of such a thing and actually heard first hand info to the contrary.
Save Pay a beautiful thing I got it when I jumped LDO my E-8 pay was more than O-1E. very rare to happen but it did in my case but i knew of it going in and made sure to push PSD to make sure I qualified it was painful, I did have to find it in the manuals someplace and explain it to them. i bet you can google it now days