Things are FINALLY starting to go smoothly!!!. Today T scheduled our final housing inspection for the 1st of March, Housing also gave us our TLA {for our hotel} now we can bring that to the Hotel on post and book the Room for March 1st to the 4th <3
He also got an appointment tomorrow morning for Finance! We will finally fill out our paperwork for our DLA { Dislocation Allowance} I hope it will hit our bankaccount before march 4th!.
We have 11 WORK DAYS left until we leave {18 all together} EEEEK time is FLYING i love it!.
This is all for now i might blog later again after i talked to T
My husband wanted to be "smart" about the DLA haha and told me we won't get it until we file the travel voucher... so i asked him if that makes sense... because the DLA is supposed to cover costs that occur while PCSing and if we won't get it until we get to the next duty station... technically we wouldn't even "need" it anymore since we will be getting a shitload of money back.
ReplyDeleteTHEN i googled it and found this:
"The purpose of Dislocation Allowance (DLA) is to partially reimburse a servicemember, with or without dependents, for the expenses incurred in relocating the member's household on a PCS, housing moves ordered for the Government's convenience, or incident to an evacuation. This allowance is in addition to all other allowances authorized in this Volume and may be paid in advance and starts at approximately $850 for an E-1 without dependents and goes up from there."
I was like WORD... that's a lot lol and then i read it again... it says: It MAY be paid in advance... but in the first sentence it says REIMBURSES.... which technically means... that we will get it back.... Uhm... so i guess it will be a surprise haha. Military doesn't make sense... But THEN again... all the money you put into Cars,Food and all that stuff... of course it will be good to get some money back :D
according to this sheet that i found online:
http://www.defensetravel.dod.mil/Docs/perdiem/browse/Allowances/Dislocation_Allowance/DLA-2012-01-01.pdf?CFID=12238271&CFTOKEN=64131657
we will be getting $2,011.08 :-O