Posted on Apr 10, 2018
Can you simplify the basic allowance for housing rules for those on orders under 179 days?
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I am in the USAR and I am going on a mission for 52 days active duty. I will be spending time in conus, on per diem, for 10 days then I will be in Canada out in the field (on an exercise) for a month.
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You will receive locality BAH based on your residence. BAH RC/Transient formerly known as BAH type II is paid to reservists on orders for 30 days or less (basic amount based on your rank not location) 52 days without a break will get you your zip code BAH. http://militarypay.defense.gov/Pay/Allowances/BAH_Types.aspx
That amount is based on dependent status.
If you maintain a residency and have certified you DA 5960 annually with your unit you will get your BAH (or at least you are entitled to it) If you do not have a residence or you are a pre-IET soldier you do not get BAH at all unless you are married/have kids/or pay child support. You'll get OCONUS M&IE while in Canada like $3 a day for incidentals no meals.
That amount is based on dependent status.
If you maintain a residency and have certified you DA 5960 annually with your unit you will get your BAH (or at least you are entitled to it) If you do not have a residence or you are a pre-IET soldier you do not get BAH at all unless you are married/have kids/or pay child support. You'll get OCONUS M&IE while in Canada like $3 a day for incidentals no meals.
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I live in Canada and I'm entitled to an overseas housing allowance of $2,300. I got bah type 2 on my normal a. T. Orders. This is over 29 days.
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If you live in Canada then you won't get BAH so they are correct, buy you are entitled to OHA. Keep pushing until someone that actually knows the regs will fix it for you.
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Not sure your mission or how they wrote your orders, but if you have a family and own or rent a home you should be entitled to BAH no matter what. The per diem shouldis to cover your housing and meals if those are not available while on this mission. Heck they sent me to Ft. Hood, I received BAH but was supposed to be housed on post, when I got there post housing told us they had no room, so the gave us a number to put on our paper work and we had to file for partial per diem and was allowed 39 per day for housing and had to find our own. Every month we had to come back in and get a new number and file each month.
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I have been mobilized three times and I have always gotten BAH since I had a home and family that was staying behind. I can say this, in 2005 they sent 82 of us to Ft. Jackson for 1 1/2 years to help with training, and as long as you maintained a residence back home you could move your family down there but had to give up separation pay, you still got BAH and they again had us file travel vouchers every month for housing and partial per diem.
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