Originally Posted by airborne_artist
That's been concerning me as well. Imagine the potential for foul-ups if AFPAA rolls out JPA to the RN and Army before all this is fixed. Lads and lasses on det, at sea, in the desert etc. should at least be certain that they are being paid correctly and on time.
Imagine the scene - lad gets his 5 mins home via satellite from the middle of the Pacific/desert and his lady gives him 4m 59secs of hell because the joint account hasn't been topped up correctly, and she needs £xxx to pay for Junior's shoes/school trip/you name it.
The Telegraph the other day in an article about JPA referred to flying pay as "a bonus". I thought that the flying was the bonus, and the pay was, well, pay.
Myself and several sqn mates wrote to our banks, explained the situation and arranged £5k overdrafts before our last trip to the desert as it was over the changeover to JPA!!! Better sfe than sorry!!