MM4
A good summary.
We had 18 moves in 4 different countries during 29 years of marriage in the Army, including 4 moves in 2 years, not uncommon in the Army. There was never any suggestion that I could choose where I was posted. We signed up to serve and that was what we did. Without BSA, as it was then, by educating the kids locally, I could have afforded a small house when we retired but the kids would have been in shreds. I received £109,000 in BSA for three kids and paid out £63,000 in top up school fees. This was during the last century of course.
Without BSA I would not have stayed in. It allowed us to make manageable decisions and have some quality of family life while serving the Queen.
If it is abolished, the effect will be enormous, catastrophic for retention and will in the end cost a great deal more that it might save on paper.
They wouldn't be that stupid, would they?