accomodation charges

TREVORCOLMAN

loopyloo41 wrote: »

Hiya, im RAF Admin, but being all JPA now we should all have the same rules!! As you are single i am afraid you get to carry on paying full food and accom even though you have your own house to go back to at the weekend. If you were married and were having to live in the block away from your family due to posting then you wouldnt have to pay accomodation. That might be where its got confusing?

Hope this helps :-)

Dont you mean RAF HR?

loopyloo41

you'd think, but RAF have only just changed from adminstrators to support trade, HR would be a more sensible title!!! ha ha. :-)

Bernie

...in my experience of old (I've been out a couple of years now), the Admin world at the senior levels seemed to have a whole set of "intrepretations" and requirements additional to those stated in the APs.

One example from a whole list I could regurgitate is when a chap came to me after having his claim for legal expenses for house moving rejected. To shorten a longish story, he and his wife fulfilled all the criteria but only her name was on the title deeds of the property (she owned it before they married several years back but didn't get the deeds changed - he paid most of the mortgage). This was cited as grounds for rejecting his claim. I went through the AP, could not find anything documenting this additional criteria - it simply was not there!

I spoke directly to the Chf Clk (WO Mafia, a mate) and asked where the stated stipulation concerning having the serviceman's name on the deeds was defined and documented for the great unwashed to absorb. He checked and got the same answer - "Rejected!". I told the Chf Clk that I was going to advise my chap to see a lawyer (Duty of Care and all that).

They went back to review the decision again, decided they were still correct ..."but if he gets the Deeds amended and re-submits his claim, it will probably be approved". He had already got the deeds changed, re-submitted his claim and got his expenses - and eventually bought me a beer in the Sqn Bar.

Do your own research, the books are there online... and don't take a plain "No" for an answer, get the decision-maker(s) to detail and justify their reasons if you think they're wrong.

...and if all else fails, the Freedom of Information Act is your friend!

:beer:

digitalray

Do they still do an accommodation waiver if your draft/posting is under 12 months? I am in the RN and made use of this rule a couple of years back. I was sent away on a 7 month course. As I had a continuing commitment to pay rent/mortgage I was exempt accom charges for the duration of the course. I had to provide proof of my mortgage to the pay office. If the course/draft/posting was expected to be over 12 months from the outset, I would have had to pay accom charges from day 1. This was for single people. The rules for married bods are completely different.

This could be why someone is paying accom, and their oppo is not. Hope that this helps....