Airmen must have made their housing decision based on the prior assignment, must provide a written statement to the assignment OPR certifying they will not relocate their household as a result of PCS and must continue to commute from the same residence to the new permanent duty station. Assignment OPR must confirm locations are within commuting distance. Professional Military Education PME or training course- Airmen who will attend a military school or training course specify the course length start and end date , location and title.
JTR indicates approval for courses scheduled for a duration of one year or less are routinely approved. Dependent education- Airmen in receipt of Permanent Change of Station PCS orders with a dependent who; is scheduled to complete the senior year in high school Note: waivers granted for senior year exemption will not cover more than one academic year ; or Airmen who receive PCS orders AFTER the starting date of the dependent's school year; or Airmen who receive PCS orders less than 60 calendar days prior to the start of the school year.
The waiver approval period shall not exceed 7 calendar days after the last official school year end date. Members selected for an assignment will automatically receive and email with a link to MyVector to begin the screening process.
Medical clearance is required for all Exceptionally Family Member Program families preparing to PCS, and for those members selected for an overseas assignment. The initial travel screen questionnaire is electronic and automated and provides immediate feedback for clearance or additional necessary actions.
EFMP member and those traveling overseas with dependents will be directed to Q-base, the DAF Special Needs Screening website and instructed to provide information as well as upload the required documentation for medical and educational clearance. Newly arriving members at that location will get the lower BAH rate, on the assumption that they will be able to find suitable housing at less cost.
Because BAH is based on the prevailing rental costs of the area where a member works, someone who changes duty stations that are fairly close together but does not change residences may see a change in the allowance rate.
Military members on official accompanied overseas tours either are provided housing or receive the Overseas Housing Allowance.
Eligibility for OHA does not require that family members join the service member overseas. Members on unaccompanied overseas tours also receive OHA if government housing is unavailable. However, there are additional pays and allowances you may receive during your time overseas above your regular basic pay. Two of the main allowances overseas personnel receive are an overseas Cost of Living Allowance and an Overseas Housing Allowance.
Qualifying service members are also able to receive benefits from the Family Supplemental Subsistence Allowance Program program. What impact will removal of renters insurance have on Basic Allowance for Housing rates?
Members who obtain renter's insurance will now need to budget for this expense separately. Does rate protection apply with these changes? This ensures members who have made long-term commitments in the form of a lease or contract are not penalized if the area's housing costs decrease.
I looked up the current year BAH amount for my grade and zip code and it's less than I was getting last year. Am I going to lose money? BAH rate protection keeps an individual from having a reduction in BAH as long as the individual maintains uninterrupted eligibility see below for BAH. This means an individual is authorized the 1 January rate for the individual's grade and location or the housing allowance being paid on 31 December of the previous year, whichever is larger.
Can I ever lose rate protection? Three separate circumstances may lead to a change in your status that interrupts your eligibility for the allowance, and then, only if the published allowance for your grade and location is less than what you are getting now. First, and most common, a decrease occurs when you PCS to a location at which the housing cost is less than at your current duty station. At the new duty station you get a lower housing allowance, but you should be no worse off, because the allowance is driven by the housing costs there.
Second, if you are demoted, your housing allowance reverts to the then-current published table of allowances for your lower grade. Promotions do not lower your housing allowance. Third, if your dependency status changes from with-dependent to without-dependent, or vice versa , your housing allowance is determined by your new dependency status and the then-current published table of allowances for your grade.
If, in a given year, I lose rate protection, am I protected from further decreases in the following year s? Does rate protection keep me from getting rate increases? If you are promoted, your BAH rate is the then-current published BAH for your new higher grade, with the following exception.
If you get promoted, and are in a location where the current published BAH for your new grade is lower than the BAH amount you were receiving before, you continue to receive the higher BAH amount. Will I see big changes in housing allowances on 1 January? Typically changes in housing allowances are modest.
Allowances reflect the costs associated with household rental. Housing allowances typically change accordingly. I have some out-of-pocket expenses! The BAH for my grade doesn't begin to cover my mortgage payment! BAH is based on rental data.
A homeowner's monthly mortgage payment is not used in the computation because the monthly cash outlay of a homeowner is not a good indicator of the economic costs of home ownership.
The variables needed to compute this include such difficult to measure factors as the expected appreciation in the value of the residence, the amount of down payment, the opportunity costs of interest from down payments, settlement costs, and the tax savings due to the interest and tax payments deduction. Therefore, BAH reflects the current rental market conditions not the historical circumstances surrounding various mortgage loans. What is the source of BAH rental data? Current, valid rental costs are crucial to accurate BAH rates.
We use data from multiple sources to provide a "checks and balances" approach. This ensures reliability and accuracy. We obtain current residential vacancies from local newspapers and real estate rental listings.
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