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MOD provided Single Living Accommodation (SLA) – is in the form of on-base barrack or mess accommodation but there are also off-base private properties which are collectively known as Substitute Service Single Accommodation (SSSA). Off base these are managed for DIO by the contractor,Mears Group. SSSA are generally offered when there is no spare on-base accommodation capacity.
There are many caveats but in general to be entitled to SLA Service personnel must be:
•Undertaking their initial training, or be serving on aregular engagement with the UK Armed Forces, or be aFull Commitment (FC) Reservist as defined in single Service instructions.
•InPersonal Status Category (PStatCat) 1(serving unaccompanied), 2(serving detached), 3, 4or5asdefined in JSP 752 Chapter 1Section 4.
•PStatCat 1personnel undergoing marital/civil partnership breakdown who are authorised by the Local Service Commander to occupy SLA for up to a3month ‘cooling off’period prior to marital/civil partnership reconciliation or estrangement (and change of PStatCat).
Service personnel must not be: •Long Service Advance of Pay(LSAP) claimants. If the Service person, or spouse/civil partner in the case of serving couples, purchases (or extends) aproperty using the Long Service Advance of PayScheme (LSAP), there is no entitlement to SFAorSLA at that place of duty,orany other place of duty, within 50 miles or 1 ½ hours of the property, during the period that the LSAP loan is being repaid. Exceptions are detailed in JSP 752 Chapter 2 Section 4 para 02.0439. For Forces Help to Buy (FHTB), there is no entitlement to SFA or SLA at that place of duty, or any other place of duty, within 50 miles of the property, during the period that the FHTB advance is being repaid. Exceptions are detailed in JSP 464 Volume 1 Part 1 Chapter 12.
Service Family Accommodation (SFA) – To be entitled to apply for SFA, Service personnel must:
• be aged 18 and over custody of children
• have at least 6 months to serve
The charges for a particular type of SFA, 2, 3, 4 bedrooms, is the same wherever you serve in the UK. It is a truism to say that SFA charges represent good value, primarily because they are currently highly subsidised.
At bases where there are insuffi cient properties, the CarillionAmey Occupancy Services Team may offer Substitute SFA; this option is becoming rarer simply because of the higher costs of the subsidy.
One-stop shop for housing advice – Mentioned in many of our previous editions of Envoy is the Joint Service Housing Advice Offi ce (JSHAO). They provide a superb service of reliable housing advice to single personnel, and families, during various stages of their changing housing requirements. Regular resettlement briefings to all groups of military community are provided. We fully endorse their role as asource of solid advice.
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