Los Angeles firefighters are claiming they are owed tens of thousands of dollars due to months of payroll errors - with some being forced to take out credit cards and loans to make ends meet.
Outraged senior LAFD officials claimed colleagues have been forced to take out credit cards and loans to avoid missing mortgage payments, with some allegedly owed $30,000 to 40,000.
Some in the organization even said they are being skimped out of their paychecks - with payroll distributing $200 instead of several thousand.
Meanwhile, as DailyMail.com reported, Fire Chief Kristin Crowley stands accused of refusing to return $37,000 in accidental overpay, an ongoing lawsuit by a former LAFD attorney said.
Firefighters shared payslips with DailyMail.com showing the apparent errors - including pay being docked rather than added for working overtime, and deductions for healthcare allegedly inflated ten times what they should have been.
LAFD staff spoke on condition of anonymity, out of fear of retaliation by top brass.
'They're wanting us to work more and more, but they're not paying us correctly. It's a fiasco,' said one senior LAFD official, who has been trying to help dozens of staff with alleged pay errors.
'It's not a couple thousand dollars per guy, it's tens of thousands of dollars.