There were payments for the things they did before reporting it, but it was not much, as most of the payments for what they did once they had reported it and started making other preparations.
There was little to prove about whether or not they had encountered what they did.
The only thing that could be used to try to prove what they had encountered and dealt with was that they had lost two of their comrades.
Those two deaths were just barely enough to prove that they had encountered something difficult to overcome with the people who were working together.
They had done a written report on everything they had experienced during the time they had been trapped there, along with every other detail of the work they did.
They did not go into a lot of details about Ash, but they did mention that another Balancer was investigating the location a day after they had entered, and that resulted in them meeting and working together.
