Tri-service regulations for expenses and allowances

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JSP 752
Tri-Service Regulations for Expenses and
Allowances

Part 2: Guidance

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Foreword

This Part 2 JSP provides policy-compliant business practices in accordance with the policy
set out in Part 1 of this JSP and is sponsored by the Defence Authority for People.

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Preface

How to use this JSP

1. JSP 752 is intended as a publication which details the regulations for payment of
military expenses and allowances. It is designed to be used by staff responsible for
expense and allowance policy. This JSP contains the policy, direction and guidance on the
processes involved and best practice to apply. This JSP will be reviewed at least bi-
annually.

2. The JSP is structured in two parts:

a. Part 1 – Directive, which provides the overarching principles that must be
followed in accordance with statute or policy mandated by Defence or on Defence by
Central Government.

b. Part 2 – Guidance, which provides the guidance and best practice that will assist
the user to comply with the principles detailed in Part 1.

Coherence with other Defence Authority Policy and Guidance

3. Where applicable, this document contains links to other relevant JSPs, some of
which may be published by different Defence Authorities. Where particular dependencies
exist, these other Defence Authorities have been consulted in the formulation of the policy
and guidance detailed in this publication.

Related JSPs Title
JSP 342 Education of Service Children and Young People
JSP 462 Financial Management and Charging Policy Manual
JSP 464 Tri-Service Accommodation Regulations (TSARs)
JSP 468 Loan and Secondment of Service Personnel to Commonwealth
and Foreign Forces
JSP 472 Financial Accounting and Reporting Manual
JSP 525 Corporate Governance
JSP 534 Tri-Service Resettlement Manual
JSP 751 Joint Casualty and Compassionate Policy and Procedures
JSP 754 Tri-Service Regulations for Pay and Charges
JSP 760 Regulations for Leave and Other Types of Absence
JSP 770 Tri-Service Operational and Non Operational Welfare Policy
JSP 800 Defence Movements and Transport Regulations
JSP 831 Redress of Individual Grievances: Service Complaints

Further Advice and Feedback – Contacts

4. The owner of this JSP is Chief Defence Personnel Armed Forces Remuneration
(Allowances). For general information on any aspect of this publication, or to provide
feedback on the content, contact:

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Job title/e-mail Project focus Telephone
CDP (AF Rem) Allces Team Tri-Service Allces Policy 9621 82932
People-AF Rem-Allces WO1 Lead

5. Personal questions not answered within this publication are to be directed through
chains of command; the single Service and Defence Business Service contact details are
below:

Single Service Pay Colonel and DBS – Contacts

Job title/e-mail Project focus Telephone
Navy Pay Col Focal Point/ Single Service Pay 9621 80475
Navy PERS-PPA 1 Focal Point
Army Pay Col Focal Point/ Single Service Pay 9621 89378
Army Pers-RemPol-Allces-SO2 Focal Point
RAF Pay Col Focal Point/ Single Service Pay 9621 89365
Air-COSPers-Pol Allces SO2 Focal Point
DBS Pay & Allowances Casework & Tri-Service Casework 94561 5363/8023
Complaints Cell/
DBS MilPers-MilOps-PACCC-Group

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Contents

Foreword i

Preface ii

How to use this JSP ii

Coherence with other Defence Authority Policy and Guidance ii

Further Advice and Feedback – Contacts ii

Contents iv

CHAPTER 1 – GENERAL DEFINITIONS

Index

Section 1 General Definitions
Section 2 Abbreviations
Section 3 Personal Status Categories
Section 4 Absence Matrix
Section 5 Rates of Service Expenses and Allowances

CHAPTER 2 – ACCOMMODATION ALLOWANCES

Index

Allowances
Section 1 Lodging Allowance (LA)
Section 2 Overseas Rent Allowance (ORA)
Section 3 Overseas Furniture Provision Scheme (OFPS)
Section 4 Long Service Advance of Pay (LSAP)
Section 5 Council Tax Relief (CTR)

CHAPTER 3 – SUBSISTENCE EXPENSES AND ALLOWANCES

Index

Expenses
Section 1 Subsistence
Section 2 Reclaim the Daily Food Charge/Core Meal
Section 3 Meals Out Expenses (MOE)

Allowances
Section 4 Food and Incidentals Allowance (FIA)
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Section 5 Special Messing Allowance (SMA)

Reference Only
Section 6 Defence Travel Hotel Booking Service (HBS)

CHAPTER 4 – TRAVEL EXPENSES AND ALLOWANCES

Index

Expenses
Section 1 Travel for Operational Stand Down (TOSD)
Section 2 Sports Travel
Section 3 Service Families’ Travel
Section 4 Concessionary Travel For Immediate Families (CTF)
Section 5 Reimbursement of Congestion Charges (CC) for Personnel
Residing in CC Zones

Allowances
Section 6 Motor Mileage Allowance (MMA)
Section 7 Home to Duty Travel (HDT)
Section 8 Privately Arranged Passage (PAP)
Section 9 Nepal (Gurkha) Trek Allowance
Section 10 School Children’s Visits (SCV)

Reference Only
Section 11 Duty Travel
Section 12 Rail Travel
Section 13 Road Travel
Section 14 Air Travel
Section 15 Sea Travel

CHAPTER 5 – SEPARATION AND GET YOU HOME EXPENSES AND
ALLOWANCES

Index

Expenses
Section 1 Get You Home (Early Years) (GYH(EY))
Section 2 Reserved
Section 3 Get You Home (Seagoers) (GYH(S))

Allowances
Section 4 Longer Separation Allowance (LSA)
Section 5 Get You Home Travel (GYH Travel)

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CHAPTER 6 – LOCATION EXPENSES AND ALLOWANCES

Index

Expenses
Section 1 Respite Journeys (Remote Locations) RJ(RL)
Section 2 Northern Ireland Journeys (NI Journeys)
Section 3 Families Assistance for Visits Abroad (FAVA)

Allowances
Section 4 Local Overseas Allowance (LOA)
Section 5 Living Out Supplemented Rates of Local Overseas
Allowance (LOSLOA)
Section 6 Small Station Local Overseas Allowance (SSLOA)
Section 7 Seagoing Local Overseas Allowance (SLOA)
Section 8 Allowances for Attachés, Advisors Abroad and Embassy
Based Service Support Staff Overseas
Section 9 European Union Daily Subsistence Allowance (EU DSA)
Section 10 Get You Home (Overseas) (GYH(O))
Section 11 Northern Ireland Resident’s Supplement (NIRS)
Section 12 Recruitment and Retention Allowance (London) (RRA(L))
Section 13 Overseas Loan Service Allowance (OLSA)

CHAPTER 7 – RELOCATION EXPENSES AND ALLOWANCES

Index

Expenses
Section 1 Disturbance Expense (DE)
Section 2 Insurance Allowance (IA)

Allowances
Section 3 Movement and Storage of Personal Effects (MSPE)
Section 4 Refund of Legal Expenses (RLE)
Section 5 Reserved

Reference Only
Section 6 Final Tour of Duty (FTOD)
Section 7 Evacuation from a Permanent Assignment Station Overseas
Section 8 The Army Over 37 Provision
Section 9 Early Mover Status

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CHAPTER 8 – CLOTHING ALLOWANCES

Index

Allowances
Section 1 Climatic Clothing Grant for Hot Posts (CCG(HP))
Section 2 Civilian Clothing Daily Allowance (CCDA) and Civilian
Clothing Annual Grant (CCAG) for Non-Commissioned
Personnel

Reference Only
Section 3 Uniform Provision and Grants for Officers
Section 4 SNCO Mess Dress Uniform Provision

CHAPTER 9 – EDUCATION ALLOWANCES

Index

Allowances
Section 1 Continuity of Education Allowances (CEA)
Section 2 Continuity of Education Allowance (Special Educational
Needs Addition (CEA(SENA))
Section 3 Continuity of Education Allowance (Day) (CEA(Day))
Section 4 Continuity of Education Allowance (Special Educational
Needs Addition (Day))(CEA(SENA(Day)))
Section 5 Continuity of Education Allowance (Guardians)
(CEA(Guardians))
Section 6 Day School Allowance (North Wales) (DSA(NW))
Section 7 Education of Service Children in Extra Command Areas
and Isolated Detachments (ECA and ISODET)
Section 8 Nursery Education for Service Children in Extra Command
Areas and Isolated Detachments (ECA and ISODET
Nursery Education)
Section 9 Individual Resettlement Training Costs (IRTC) Grant
Section 10 Learning Credit Schemes
Section 11 Language Awards

CHAPTER 10 – COMPENSATION AND REIMBURSEMENT EXPENSES
AND ALLOWANCES

Index

Expenses
Section 1 Refund of Foreign Currency Exchange Costs
Section 2 Miscellaneous Expenses:
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- Reimbursement of Medical, Dental, Optician &
Prescription Fees
- Reimbursement of Telephone and Postal Fees

Allowances
Section 3 Unpleasant Work Allowance (UWA)
Section 4 Unpleasant Living Allowance (ULA)
Section 5 Experimental Test Allowance (ETA)
Section 6 Compensation for Lost and Damaged Personal Effects
Section 7 Northern Ireland Motor Insurance Refunds (NIMIR)
Section 8 Service Risks Insurance Premium Refunds (SRIPs)
Section 9 Discharge Grants for Service Personnel Under Sentence
Section 10 Refund of Nugatory Holiday Expenditure (NHE)
Section 11 Experimental Diving Allowance
Section 12 Part Time Service Instructors Allowance
Section 13 Miscellaneous Allowances:
- Detainees Under Sentence Reimbursement Allowance
(DUSRA )
- Funeral Grants
- Provision of Driving Licence Fees
- Ex Gratia payments in lieu of Maternity Allowance
- Provision of Passports and Visas at Public Expense
Section 14 Operational Allowance
Section 15 Campaign Continuity Allowance (CCA)
Section 16 Reserved
Section 17 Mine Countermeasures Vessels Environmental Allowance
(MEA)
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CHAPTER 1 – GENERAL DEFINITIONS

Index

Section 1 – General Definitions

01.0101…… Definition of Reimbursement Expense
01.0102…… Definition of Reimbursement Allowances
01.0103…… General
01.0104…… Accompanied Service
01.0105…… Allowance Checker
01.0106…… Assessment of Mileage
01.0107…… Assignment
01.0108...… Cadet Force Personnel
01.0109…… Change in Place of Duty
01.0110…… Child
01.0111…… Civil Partner
01.0112…… Civil Partnership
01.0113…… Civil Partnership Home
01.0114…… Close Family
01.0115…… Council Tax Definition of Sole or Main Residence
01.0116…… Dissolution
01.0117…… Divorce
01.0118…… Divorced
01.0119…… Duty Station
01.0120…… Engaged
01.0121…… Expenses Auditor
01.0122…… Expenses Authoriser
01.0123…… Family Accommodation Administrator
01.0124…… Family Home
01.0125…… Fiancé/Fiancée
01.0126…… Field or Shipboard Conditions
01.0127…… Former Civil Partner
01.0128…… GB Islands
01.0129…… Home/Permanent Residence for Single Personnel
01.0130…… Homeowner
01.0131…… Householder
01.0132…… Immediate Family
01.0133…… Legal Order
01.0134…… Local Training Manager
01.0135…… Maternity Leave
01.0136…… Messing Facility
01.0137…… Mid-Assignment Move (MAM)
01.0138…… North West Europe (NWE)
01.0139…… Pay As You Earn (PAYE) Settlement Agreement
01.0140…… Personal Effects (PE)
01.0141…… Personal Status Category (PStat Cat)
01.0142…… Prime Mover
01.0143…… Principal Residence
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