Living in a Married Quarter

Kelma01

My partner is RSM and for this last 2 year post he has had a SSSA (on the lodge) arrangement, which has meant that we rented our own house out, and lived together in the SSSA accomodation. (We are not married so I am not sure whether this was a legitimate arrangement.) His new posting as RSM is likely to mean that he will be living on camp, and he believes that as a single RSM he should be allocated a married quarter rather than a room in the mess. We have been together for 8 years but neither of us are in a rush to tie the knot. Does anyone know of any instances whereby I would be allowed to live with him if he were allocated an MQ, even though we are not married ?. It would be much more financially beneficial to us to keep our house rented out and live in a MQ than to rent somewhere privately together.

Ivrytwr3

I don't believe he is entitled to a MQ as a singe person (unless kids are involved).

But the way people used to get around this in the past were for serving member to 'employ' their partner as an au pair (au pairs are authorised to live in MQ!!).

ICATQ

Some Units allow WO to have a quarter irrespective. If he has kids, whether they live with him or not he is entitled so they can visit. In addition if there is a surplus quarter he can rent then he could do that and you would be able to live there too as it is considered a 'private' arrangement.

mrsfarnie

Well of course it will be "financially beneficial for you" like it would be for others.
SSSA is Substitue SINGLE service accomadation. YOU should NOT have been living with him permananently. There is somthing about this in QR's. You can visit and can stay but only for so many days in a month.
You need to be very careful as if you are found out they can even backdate his claim. He could even be charged with falsely claiming accomdation, as he was misusing it.
Just because he is a RSM does not automatically mean he will qualify for a MQ.

Cat695

I think you'll find that if he was to claim SSSA and it was found out you was living there it would be classed as fraud,as he would be recieiving benefits to pay for certain services including help with food to which you are not entitled to......is his rank/pension really with it?

Remember the higher up the rank you go the more severe the punishment

martinbuckley

Kelma01 wrote: »

My partner is RSM and for this last 2 year post he has had a SSSA (on the lodge) arrangement, which has meant that we rented our own house out, and lived together in the SSSA accomodation. (We are not married so I am not sure whether this was a legitimate arrangement.) His new posting as RSM is likely to mean that he will be living on camp, and he believes that as a single RSM he should be allocated a married quarter rather than a room in the mess. We have been together for 8 years but neither of us are in a rush to tie the knot. Does anyone know of any instances whereby I would be allowed to live with him if he were allocated an MQ, even though we are not married ?. It would be much more financially beneficial to us to keep our house rented out and live in a MQ than to rent somewhere privately together.

Your partner is spot on when he believes that he can have a surplus MQ by virtue of his appointment.

However, I am somewhat surprised that he was unaware that SSSA stands for Substitute SINGLE Service Accommodation, and that by having a partner, or indeed anyone else, living there is totally against the rules and is highly fraudulent. The MOD pick up the tab for all the heating and lighting for SSSA, and therefore have been paying for your use of any electric shower/washing machine etc.

It may well be financially beneficial for you to rent out your house and move into a surplus MQ whilst not being married, but it could also cost him his rank and pension if he continues to provide an unentitled person with board and lodgings at the taxpayers expense.

13Kent

We applied for a surplus quarter at a couple of places before we were married as my OH had children that visited regularly. We were paying 3 times as much renting privately as we would have been in a quarter, but despite numerous requests and seeing lots of empty houses on the camp we were never given one so got married earlier than we had planned to and were given a lovely quarter which we moved into a week after we married. However as my OH had been in that job for a while we were not entitled to any moving costs and had to pay for the move ourselves.