JPA - What will it do for you?
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Capped Actuals
Mrs Mighty reliably informs me that the rates are available in JSP 752 (yes, she is a JSP spotter.)
Any more geeky help you need, i'll pass your requests on to Mrs Mighty (JPA Pro!)
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Any more geeky help you need, i'll pass your requests on to Mrs Mighty (JPA Pro!)
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Here's what JPA does for single blokes serving overseas and receiving Local Overseas Supplemental Living Allowance: You lose your right to ANY other meal rates.
E.g. - single bloke on exchange in USA - gets around $5.80/day as recompense because he can't eat in the mess; under JPA, he can no longer claim subsistence rates - so Breakfast, Lunch and Tea costs should all equal $5.80, not the $70+ that they do now...
Also heard the Army and Navy have put it on hold until Apr 07.
Not long now
E.g. - single bloke on exchange in USA - gets around $5.80/day as recompense because he can't eat in the mess; under JPA, he can no longer claim subsistence rates - so Breakfast, Lunch and Tea costs should all equal $5.80, not the $70+ that they do now...
Also heard the Army and Navy have put it on hold until Apr 07.
Not long now
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JPA also being used to get other allowances cut, through the back door. Disturbance allowance is being reduced for Officers by approx £400 to bring it in line with other ranks.
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Well I know a Cpl, married with no kids, who got about £900 Disturbance Allowance and removals done and paid for. Presumably DA for officers is equally disproportionate unless you've got 5 kids and a small country to move. In which case, I have no sympathy with a £400 reduction.
I'll be interested to see what DA for singlies means as the current 'Move yourself and we'll pay your expenses' (in a Capped Actuals kind of way) meant I was £50 out of pocket no matter how fast I moved or which route I economically drove. For anyone to be out of pocket in 2005 as a result of being posted is ridiculous, especially when the Marrieds get given a wheelbarrow full of cash for nothing.
I'll be interested to see what DA for singlies means as the current 'Move yourself and we'll pay your expenses' (in a Capped Actuals kind of way) meant I was £50 out of pocket no matter how fast I moved or which route I economically drove. For anyone to be out of pocket in 2005 as a result of being posted is ridiculous, especially when the Marrieds get given a wheelbarrow full of cash for nothing.
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Originally Posted by Smudger552
JPA also being used to get other allowances cut, through the back door. Disturbance allowance is being reduced for Officers by approx £400 to bring it in line with other ranks.
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Am I now entitled?
All you clever folks, I wondered if anyone knew if I will now beable to claim home to duty? I moved out after the 6 month rule of being able to claim such luxury as money for nothing.. Reading the new JSP, I cannot see anywhere saying that upon arrival in a new post to claim home to duty i must move out within 6 months.... Does anyone out there know more than me?
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Single peeps allowances
I agree with Dallas! im moving again , single at my own expenses van hire and petrol for the 3 days around £300 , I get back £97 quid, 2nd move like this in 5 months grrrrr!! Been in a number of years, but single still being treated like 2nd class. 
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Gentlemen (and Ladies?)
Yes, singlies will now be able to claim DA, at least in some circumstances. Also, the rank differential has been removed, in favour of basing the DA rates on the size of the accommodation you are moving to (a bit problematic, perhaps, if you are moving from a larger house to a smaller one?). The rates for moving into SFA are now rather lower than those for moving into private accommodation (good to see the Services doing even more to encourage occupation of SFA!).
Beware. There are heavy hints that DA rates are likely to move downwards again in future.
For your next piece of relaxing reading, JSP 754 - The Tri-Service Rules for Pay and Charges, is now available on the Defence Intranet.
Regards
Ginseng
Beware. There are heavy hints that DA rates are likely to move downwards again in future.
For your next piece of relaxing reading, JSP 754 - The Tri-Service Rules for Pay and Charges, is now available on the Defence Intranet.
Regards
Ginseng
In the bad old days, there was no such thing as DA for singlies. Or even Home-to-Duty if you lived out.
Then came the revolution a few years ago - about bloody time too - when singlies were no longer discriminated against. No longer were you expected to move all your worldly possessions in your own car from base to base. As I did in my 1970 MG Midget from Cranwell to Leeming to Cranwell to Valley to Brawdy to Wittering... In my Fiat 128SL coupe from Wittering to Honington to Biggin Hill. In my Opel Manta from Biggin Hill to Leeming to Scampton. In my VW Sciroccos from Scampton to Leeming to Valley to Chivenor to Coningsby to Wattisham. And finally in another Opel Manta from Wattisham to Finningley to Brize Norton....... Many of which moves also involved the inevitable trips to Mountbatten and North Luffenham, of course.
Sooo, if DA is being reduced, then do what we were supposed to do back then and move anything which isn't your own private property by R&D. Everything!...... "Sorry, Boss, my uniform, flying kit, etc etc hasn't arrived yet..... R&D haven't delivered it"
When I moved from Chivenor to Coningsby, I asked how long it would take R&D to send my RAF kit. "About 3 weeks with luck, Sir"....
Then came the revolution a few years ago - about bloody time too - when singlies were no longer discriminated against. No longer were you expected to move all your worldly possessions in your own car from base to base. As I did in my 1970 MG Midget from Cranwell to Leeming to Cranwell to Valley to Brawdy to Wittering... In my Fiat 128SL coupe from Wittering to Honington to Biggin Hill. In my Opel Manta from Biggin Hill to Leeming to Scampton. In my VW Sciroccos from Scampton to Leeming to Valley to Chivenor to Coningsby to Wattisham. And finally in another Opel Manta from Wattisham to Finningley to Brize Norton....... Many of which moves also involved the inevitable trips to Mountbatten and North Luffenham, of course.
Sooo, if DA is being reduced, then do what we were supposed to do back then and move anything which isn't your own private property by R&D. Everything!...... "Sorry, Boss, my uniform, flying kit, etc etc hasn't arrived yet..... R&D haven't delivered it"
When I moved from Chivenor to Coningsby, I asked how long it would take R&D to send my RAF kit. "About 3 weeks with luck, Sir"....
No Dagenahm Dustbin for me - my father had one of the first Capri 3000 GT XLRs until he traded it in for an MGB GT!
I've never owned a 4- or 5-door car!
After the Manta, it was Manta GTE Stage 2, then Honda Preludes from 1991 until 2003, then Mercedes Benz SLKs.
None of which would have been much use for moving my worldly possessions in, had I moved between postings. But I was lucky enough to have 20 years in British West Oxfordshire, so HM didn't have to cough up a single brass farthing to help me move.
Surely in these post-Pink Wednesday PC days, there can be no discrimination on marital status grounds?
I've never owned a 4- or 5-door car!
After the Manta, it was Manta GTE Stage 2, then Honda Preludes from 1991 until 2003, then Mercedes Benz SLKs.
None of which would have been much use for moving my worldly possessions in, had I moved between postings. But I was lucky enough to have 20 years in British West Oxfordshire, so HM didn't have to cough up a single brass farthing to help me move.
Surely in these post-Pink Wednesday PC days, there can be no discrimination on marital status grounds?