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I need a rant!!!!!
Please forgive me, but I just need to rant, and this board is more likely than any other to have people who are/have been in this position. My bl00dy neighbours (on the married patch) moved in a few months ago at the same time as us, and have some sort of weekly get together where they sing, chant and clap very loudly (I…
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Loa Rates - Admin help please?
Can anyone point me in the direct of the current LOA rates please? Thanks very much x
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Help - JPA error but I have to pay
Hi, I was wondering if anyone with legal knowledge could help me. I have been told I have to pay back to the Army £2200. This is due to a JPA error when my job title was changed. JPA made me move up an increment level and so made my wage go up. This happened in August 2008 and JPA has only just realised and told me I must…
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ssfa/Substitute service family accomodation help pls!
hi all right basicly my hubby has been posted from the reg for the past 2 years and the time recently came for him to go back. this is where the problems start:mad: there is no housing for us,we were put on a waiting list and 3 months later still noughting! so we were put on the ssfa not by our choice in this time my hubby…
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Cheaper Alternative to Van Hire?
I am moving from Birmingham to Helensburgh MQ's and I need to get minimal belongings up there. I have looked into hiring a van and between the hire and fuel costs it will cost around £500!!! This seems ridiculously expensive to me! Do any MSer's know of any other cheaper ways that I could get my belongings up there? Thanks…
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JPA access when husbands away.
OK, hubby is forever out of the country for months on end, daughter is boarding school. Hubby had to sign forms stating i have full authority on JPA whilst he's out of country to do things like the school bills claim and flights each term. Now they have decided i'm not allowed, therefore we have been slapped with late…
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Tax Credits + OOA bonus = We owe you
My hubby is currently Op Herrick, to our 'delight' he will receive a doubled bonus for being OOA, thank you Con Dems. However, once that is declared to tax credits we will end up out of pocket. Our children have been without dad for months on end now the system will take back money. So how does my husband get any 'benefit'…
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Need your help!
Sorry this isn't a money question, but I am trying to help a friend get some answers over her husbands death and we are hitting brick walls. Please, does anyone know, with regards to medical downgrades, what the following means: P3 PES LSE We are pretty certain the P3 is that he was on limited duties. The PES is the…
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Anyone else in a similar situation
Hello all, Am currently serving in the RAF and have just passed my 20 year point of 22yrs. Have passed all the promex exams just over six months ago but am still waiting for an offer to LOS30. Is anyone else in the same boat, how long have people waited in the past before receiving the offer. With the SDSR looming starting…
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I want to leave my Army husband...help
I don't really want to air our troubles on here, but I feel I have no way out. His wages pay for the house and bills and he gives me next to no money and I have to ask like a child when I want something for our children and then it gets thrown in my face its been like this for sometime and I have worked and had no help…
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permission needed ?
Hi,pull up a sandbag. Recently married, wife 5 months pregnant and getting posted to Cyprus at the end of the year. The wife has a 2 year old daughter from her ex. Now he was fine with us taking her to cyprus with us, for about 18 months approx, as long as he got to see her whenever possible. Happy days. Unfortunatley he's…
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Sending parcels to Afghan
After reading info elsewhere, it seems that people are discouraged from sending 'goody' parcels to soldiers as they 'clog up' the postal system. Is this true? as a few sites say the MOD has effecticely 'vetoed' it apart from their families. I'd like to send some bits out to make their life a bit more tolerable but don't…
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MQ charges
Hiya, I have seen somewhere a document that gives mq's prices but I dont seem to be able to find it again. I dont suppose anyone can help can they? Thanks x
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army disablement pension help plz
after a review of my war disablement pension i got an increase to 40% from 30% great then a letter from afps glasgow about a lump sum payment i was now due as my disablement was above 20% so i sent them a letter asking why i havent recieved this since i left the army after all my pension started at 20% then was risen to…
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Buying tax free goods in Germany
I have encountered a problem I am hoping somebody may be able to clear up for me. The MWST office insists that the only way to get tax free goods is by paying them and they issue a cheque for the shop. We are trying to make some purchases from two different shops we have never used before this week. We have presented them…
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Widows Benefits for second wives
Can anyone clarify this please. Husband, ex army left in 1992 after 20 years. 9 years after leaving army divorced and married again. If at some point he dies before me, do I still receive any pension? Thank you for your help
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Armed Forces Pension Scheme Lump Sum and Child Support Payments
Thanks in advance for reading. With the prospect of redundancies in the Armed Forces, can anyone please advice how the lump sum of an Armed Forces pension (the tax-free three-times annual pension payment, AFPS75, if that matters) would be treated for CSA maintenance calculations? Is it treated as normal income, with a…
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Claiming benefits and Armed Forces
Hi All, My OH is serving and we recently found that we are entitled to full housing benefit and a full discount on council tax. I assume that with the housing benefit we just fill in the forms at the council offices, but council tax is a bit different. I have followed the threads about Ops and CILOCT but I wondered if…
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RAF / ATC Trophy supplier
Does anyone have a web address or contact details for a quality trophy supplier or designer? The OC of my old ATC Squadron recently passed away and given that he was such an inspiration to me joining up I wanted to look at getting a commemorative trophy that could be kept on the Squadron to be awarded annually in his name.…
