For the incoming single SNA's - PSD stuff

[MIDNJAC]

Disclaimer: All this info is subject to change, and of course this is only as good as the PSD rep I met with today

I just got back from my brief w/ PSD and thought I would shed some light on the current (9APR08) pay/entitlement situation for single SNA's in P-cola who are in A-pool and API since there has been some confusion about what the policy has been:

1) Once you get a BAH request form signed at the BOQ office, you should not have problems getting off-base housing and BAH-S. No BAH-T shennanigans

2) When you pick up follow on Primary orders (the day you class up for API), you begin making per diem for the time you are in API until the point where you detach for Primary. Rate is @ $106/day. Make sure you have reciepts showing that your rent checks cleared during this time period so you can close out the claim when you get to Primary. This part (the per diem while collecting BAH) is contrary to a lot of things I've heard, so I would take this with a grain of salt unless someone else can definitely confirm this.

3) You will be given back-pay in terms of BAH-T for the time that you were en route to P-cola from your commissioning source (read, detach to report period). This one seemed a little bit questionable to me, but hey, if he says so whatever....its not a whole lot of money anyways, even with my 9 days of travel time.

That is pretty much it, at least as far as my check in went. Hope this gives some of you a head's up which I didn't have!

 

[incubus852]

That's all correct. The snafu with the BAH-T has been cleared up.

 

[UMichfly]

Make sure you have some form of lease with your name on it while you're in P'Cola. I made the mistake of renting a room informally from a buddy for 6 months and I missed out on the 8 days of per diem I qualified for because I didn't have a lease there.

My pseudo-random $.02

 

[MIDNJAC]

Make sure you have some form of lease with your name on it while you're in P'Cola. I made the mistake of renting a room informally from a buddy for 6 months and I missed out on the 8 days of per diem I qualified for because I didn't have a lease there.

My pseudo-random $.02

Yeah, good addition, he specifically counseled me on making sure to do this. How was it that you only qualified for 8 days?

 

[BACONATOR]

Yeah, good addition, he specifically counseled me on making sure to do this. How was it that you only qualified for 8 days?

IF he was OCS, then we don't qualify for per diem except for moving days since we had orders to Pcola (had) already. Not a TAD.

 

[Tom]

IF he was OCS, then we don't qualify for per diem except for moving days since we had orders to Pcola (had) already. Not a TAD.

Things are different now that OCS is in Newport.

 

[BACONATOR]

Things are different now that OCS is in Newport.

Hence the "IF" and my parenthetical statement. What can I say? We just got fucked... :icon_tong

 

[MIDNJAC]

I thought he meant the per diem they claim I'll get during API....which would be the same regardless of commissioning source, right? Or is there a way for them to cut follow on orders w/o making API TDY/TEMDUINS/etc?

 

[armada1651]

As an incoming single SNA, thanks for posting this. Good information to have.

 

[BACONATOR]

I thought he meant the per diem they claim I'll get during API....which would be the same regardless of commissioning source, right? Or is there a way for them to cut follow on orders w/o making API TDY/TEMDUINS/etc?

I was just making the point that for us OCS folks in pcola, we weren't entitled to Per diem during API. Only for the move afterward. And if this is bad gouge, then I got fvcked because I got 7 days worth of per diem when I moved here.

 

[nugget81]

I was just making the point that for us OCS folks in pcola, we weren't entitled to Per diem during API. Only for the move afterward. And if this is bad gouge, then I got fvcked because I got 7 days worth of per diem when I moved here.

I got per diem from the day I checked into API until the day I graduated. This was only a year ago...

 

[BACONATOR]

I got per diem from the day I checked into API until the day I graduated. This was only a year ago...

1) You were BDCP, correct?
2) Were you in pcola greater than 6 months?
3) Where did you go to primary?
4) How do I get more money?

 

[MIDNJAC]

I was just making the point that for us OCS folks in pcola, we weren't entitled to Per diem during API. Only for the move afterward. And if this is bad gouge, then I got fvcked because I got 7 days worth of per diem when I moved here.

Gotcha....that sucks, I know things were all jacked up before I got here so maybe it had to do with that. To me it seems like they F'd up the BAH-T thing, and decided that the "en route" portion of SNA orders (where you rate BAH-T) started at comm. source detatchment, and extended all the way to primary......and now they have corrected that and recognized that API and A-pool are a different thing altogether than just being en route to your final orders, and warrant a different set of entitlements. Good for us, bad for you. I'm sure we will get our bad deal someday too, thus making it all fair and equal, right?

 

[phrogpilot73]

Make sure you have some form of lease with your name on it while you're in P'Cola. I made the mistake of renting a room informally from a buddy for 6 months and I missed out on the 8 days of per diem I qualified for because I didn't have a lease there.

My pseudo-random $.02

You can get lease agreements/sublet agreements (if your buddy is renting the house/apartment - that's what you have to have) online.

 

[HeyJoe]

Make sure you have some form of lease with your name on it while you're in P'Cola. I made the mistake of renting a room informally from a buddy for 6 months and I missed out on the 8 days of per diem I qualified for because I didn't have a lease there.

My pseudo-random $.02

Below in head work. You can get a lease off the Internet and could have asked them if you can return with lease. That's not gaming the system, it's merely putting on paper what you agreed to verbally.