New MOD Accommodation Policy
https://www.gov.uk/government/news/d...rces-personnel
Defence announces New Accommodation Offer for Armed Forces personnel New accommodation offer announced to modernise accommodation entitlements to Armed Forces personnel. A new accommodation offer to revolutionise housing for service personnel and their families was announced by the Ministry of Defence today. The offer, which will be the biggest change to Armed Forces housing for a generation and available from March 2024, will modernise accommodation entitlements, improve the standard of Single Living Accommodation and provide a framework to update overseas accommodation. The development and design of this new offer, which delivers on recommendations in the Haythornthwaite Review and the Defence Command Paper refresh has been informed by research and engagement with service personnel and their families, including learnings from a three-year pilot. Minister for Defence, People, Veterans and Service Families, Andrew Murrison MP said: “As the Defence Command Paper Refresh made clear, our serving personnel are critical to the effectiveness of our Armed Forces. “Today’s announcement will ensure that our Defence Accommodation policy continues to meet the needs of today’s armed forces community offering greater flexibility for those that serve.” Following the successful pilot, the New Accommodation Offer will include:
The department is already looking at how we can implement the New Accommodation Offer overseas, including pilots of needs-based accommodation at selected locations. As part of these improvements, overseas accommodation policy will be separated from UK policy to make it easier to understand and consider the different realities of living in other countries (such as where air conditioning is more important than loft insulation). |
If you can prove you are weekly commuting from a permanent family home to a place of duty, irrespective of how you define family, then you shouldn’t been paying SLA charges. It’s that simple, and that’s the only thing they need to do here. If they can wheel out support for just about every other demographic going then they should be able to support one of their other main demographics. Especially if they are also wanting to encourage home ownership. |
Originally Posted by Melchett01
(Post 11506044)
Errr what does that mean? Having seen suggestions on the level of financial support offered as part of the new model at Wittering (via the Benefits Calculator), where you can get support to live in the community, the level of support on offer didn’t even cover the rent on a non-policy compliant bedsit in the crappy end of Peterborough let alone anywhere you didn’t have to share with cockroaches.
If you can prove you are weekly commuting from a permanent family home to a place of duty, irrespective of how you define family, then you shouldn’t been paying SLA charges. It’s that simple, and that’s the only thing they need to do here. If they can wheel out support for just about every other demographic going then they should be able to support one of their other main demographics. Especially if they are also wanting to encourage home ownership. |
n addition to the Forces Help to Buy which offers support to first time buyers to buy a home, a permanent part of our accommodation policy, the New Accommodation Offer will provide further support for Service personnel becoming first time buyers, refunding up to £1,500 of their legal expenses. Note it is refunding, so you still need to put it out there, then claim it back? |
Originally Posted by NutLoose
(Post 11506598)
Quickly followed by a posting to the other end of the country once the house purchase is completed..... Ohhhh the cynic in me. :E
Originally Posted by NutLoose
(Post 11506598)
Note it is refunding, so you still need to put it out there, then claim it back?
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Originally Posted by trim it out
(Post 11506605)
rather than the one off disturbance expense which may or may not cover the costs actually incurred.
It appears that they've done away with the more innovative (if poorly funded) aspects of seeing if people wanted to live in the community. Is that because people a) didn't want to live off base or b) during the trial the MOD poorly funded off base living so people thought it was a rubbish deal? |
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