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2011 BAH rates

I stand corrected... got a message from ChunksJR saying you won't lose any benjamins.... still sucks not getting an incease (a bitchin sailor is a happy sailor, right, RIGHT?):

https://www.defensetravel.dod.mil/site/faqbah.cfm#Q3

3. I looked up the current year BAH amount for my grade and ZIP Code and it's less than I was getting last year. Am I going to lose money?
No. BAH rate protection keeps an individual from having a reduction in BAH as long as the individual maintains "uninterrupted eligibility" [see below] for BAH. This means an individual is authorized the 1 January rate for the individual's grade and location or the housing allowance being paid on 31 December of the previous year, whichever is larger.
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Now, since I will be pinning on in Sept, so I, unfortunately, WILL make $50 less than you do for BAH. :)
 
Anchorage went up $50! Which i believe is more than our base pay raise...

Now if we could get a COLA bump...
 
So if i've been living in Norfolk since March and I promoted two weeks ago (haven't pinned on yet) do I get the higher or the lower rate? It's going down significantly ($126!!!) for O-2 with dependents.
 
If you haven't pinned on yet you are not getting paid as an O-2 yet, so my bet would be you get the lower rate. Don't spend the raise before you get it.

BTW, when I was in the O-1 to O-3 rapid and steep pay curve time, I would add at least half of every pay raise to savings and investments, as it was an easy way to significantly increase the percentage of my income I was saving and investing without seeing the additional outlay from my pay. Since I didn't have that money before, I wasn't missing it later.
 
desertoasis said:
So if i've been living in Norfolk since March and I promoted two weeks ago (haven't pinned on yet) do I get the higher or the lower rate? It's going down significantly ($126!!!) for O-2 with dependents.
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Go to post #2 above if you'd like the answer. I'm too lazy to retype it.

swaco said:
BTW, when I was in the O-1 to O-3 rapid and steep pay curve time, I would add at least half of every pay raise to savings and investments, as it was an easy way to significantly increase the percentage of my income I was saving and investing without seeing the additional outlay from my pay. Since I didn't have that money before, I wasn't missing it later.
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webmaster said:
I stand corrected... got a message from ChunksJR saying you won't lose any benjamins.... still sucks not getting an incease (a bitchin sailor is a happy sailor, right, RIGHT?):
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Not if you're a reservist on active duty who has new orders that start 1 JAN...
 
Damn, married BAH where I live around Pendleton went down almost $100. So, since I understood BAH to be reflective of average mortgages in a given area, would this be the result of the real estate market crash? I know socal got hit relatively hard in the last couple years.
 
MIDNJAC said:
Damn, married BAH where I live around Pendleton went down almost $100. So, since I understood BAH to be reflective of average mortgages in a given area, would this be the result of the real estate market crash? I know socal got hit relatively hard in the last couple years.
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IIRC, BAH is pegged to the rental market.
 
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