So. Did anyone else hear that the instruction changed? Now no matter where your family lives, they get the BAH for the loosing base, not where they actually live.




That sounds like something people need to know while MOVING their family before a remote doesn't it?

I doubt that can happen. Just make sure that if you go on a short tour (Korea) ensure that on your orders your family is on them and saying where they will be living.

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Did that.

Finance office at Osan says it has been like this since Oct.
But there is no plan to let anybody coming in know.

It was just in the Air Force Times.

Glad that is an Air Force thing....

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What you find when you are an average person looking for info before a PCS, and want to double verify what your local finance office told you.


http://perdiem.hqda.pentagon.mil/perdiem/bahfaq.ht ml
Q1: Who is eligible for BAH?
A member assigned to permanent duty within the 50 United States, who is not furnished government housing, is eligible for a Basic Allowance for Housing (BAH), based on the member's dependency status at the permanent duty station ZIP Code. A member stationed overseas (except in Hawai’i and Alaska), including U.S. protectorates, who is not furnished government housing, is eligible for an Overseas Housing Allowance (OHA) based on the member's dependency status. If a member is serving an UNACCOMPANIED overseas tour, the member is eligible for BAH at the ‘with dependents’ rate, based on the dependent's U.S. residence ZIP Code, plus FSH at the OCONUS PDS, if the member is not furnished government housing overseas.

What you find when you are red hot mad that all official websites, and offices told you the wrong info, and you look up every single change to policy after trying to locate those changes for an hour!




http://www.perdiem.osd.mil/regs/archives/2007/JFTR/ Change%20250%20(10-01-07).pdf



Joint Federal Travel Regulations Cover Letter and Sheets-in-Force
U10406-A1. Eliminates the rules that require BAH payment based on dependent location when dependents relocate
at personal expense while the member is serving an unaccompanied tour.
U10408-A1. Clarifies that BAH continues at the rate for the old PDS when a member serves an unaccompanied
tour and dependents continue to reside in the residence that they shared with the member before the PCS.
U10408-A8. Eliminates the rules that require BAH payment based on dependent location when dependents relocate
at personal expense while the member is serving an unaccompanied tour.
U10408-A10. Eliminates the rules that require BAH payment based on dependent location when dependents
relocate at personal expense while the member is serving an unaccompanied tour.
U10408-B, Table U10E-6. Eliminates the rules that require BAH payment based on dependent location when
dependents relocate at personal expense while the member is serving an unaccompanied tour.

Assuming it is correct, Getting paid what the BAH is/was at the losing base makes perfect sense to me. It might prevent the AF spending many extra bucks to have a family move to some expensive area (even if it was near grandma), rather than just staying put during the short tour.

Do some of you think JTR's apply only to the AF?

I think it's an All of Us thing.

JFTR applies to everyone.


It is more practical (for the military), but they are not getting that info out to people before they actaully DO IT! The wrong info is being briefed.

I can show you proof that the AF does what they want. Just look at what I talked about in other threads.

In the AF you loose you follow on if you move your dependants while your on a short tour? Not in the Army.

Whats the difference, it's all in the JFTR but as usual their are differences in AF and Army becasue a policy letter has been put out. It's been proven on this board many times.

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