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This increase in rent is ahead of our pay rise, so my pay is down by 1.8% in the interim and yet nothing has been done to address the standard of the quarters. We are accepting lower and lower norms as acceptable yet being forced to pay more. CarillionAmey are attending fewer appointments than MHS both for on-base (no hot water in Officers’ Mess at RAF Lossiemouth for 5 days) as well as off base for SFA.
I currently reside in grade 3 SFA and have seen no improvements made in the two years I have lived here. A 2.8% rise across all four grades is unfair and seems to cover the cost of upgrades to other properties
This means our income is going down and not increasing. How can pay rise by 1% but accommodation by 2.8%? They’re taking it straight back from us!
SFA charges being increased yet we are unable to get even a matching kitchen as they will not upgrade our property so live with odd kitchen units. Half are 20 years old and the remaining brand new. No council or housing association would expect tenants to live like this.
A 1% salary increase will just cover the SFA increase, but when you also take into account inflation, it is a theoretical pay cut - again.
These increases show that the pay award is on paper only. Well done the MOD. Look no further as to why so many personnel are PVR’ing
An increase in line with inflation would be fairer.
As with the food charges, if it is reasonable to increase income by only 1%, why should it be acceptable to then take some of that back in additional charges.
I understand that any rise in charges is never going to be welcomed but, in this time of austerity and with no obvious benefit back for the increase in SFA, it’s a difficult charge to accept.
Accommodation charges are still behind real living costs, they need to become more realistic to help the case for more pay.
I have seen no improvement in any of the quarters I have lived in for the past 10 years. To try and convince me that an above inflation rise in charges is justified insults my intelligence.
Rises in accommodation charges have far outstripped rises in pay for many years now, meaning that a larger percentage of pay is being spent on accommodation and CILOCT charges. Future rises should be capped at the same level as the pay award.
This is greater than the increase in pay, plus all I hear from friends in Service Families accommodation is the abysmal maintenance and repairs programme.
I don’t feel it’s fair that rent increases aren’t announced until mere days/weeks before the change takes effect. A minimum notice period should apply!
It seems give a little take a lot. This may have been barely palatable originally but now looking at it with the CAAS adjustments I’m looking at a 40% increase - albeit over two years. Which is ridiculous. I understand that it is still cheaper than renting in the private sector but it that’s supposed to be a perk of the job and offsets the constant moving!
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