Housing Allowance?

[SpriteWolf]

Hello Everyone this is my first post on this forum and I am actually looking for some information or possible assistance. I am currently engaged to a soldier in the US Army. He is a PFC currently stationed in Fort Stewart, GA.

We are going to be getting married in December... Before he is deployed to Iraq on January 7th. While he is away he wants me to move out of my "roomate" situation which I am in now with 3 other people and secure a place for him and myself to live when he is on leave and when he gets a domestic station again.

I need information about Housing Allowances. How they work and what the limits are or how i can find the limits. Who I can ask.. So on and so forth. Any help would be appreciated because I would like to be living by myself by January when he leaves.. Possibly December when he is here for leave and when we get married. So that we don't have to spend our 7 days together with my 3 roomates.

Please Help. :confused:

[innes]

This is from the Office of the Secretary of Defense website:

Basic Allowance for Housing (BAH)

BAH is an allowance to offset the cost of housing when you do not receive government-provided housing. Your BAH depends upon your location, pay grade and whether you have dependents. BAH rates are set by surveying the cost of rental properties in each geographic location. The rates are established such that members in each pay grade, independent of location, pay approximately the same out-of-pocket costs. Therefore, BAH rates in high-cost areas will be much greater than those in low-cost areas. BAH rates are published on the Per Diem Committee web page (www.dtic.mil/perdiem/bah.html).

Here is the URL so you can look at the other information:

http://www.defenselink.mil/militarypay/pay/bah/index.html

Hope this helps.

[jaimeljames]

http://www.army.ucf.edu/gen%20army%20info.htm#Pay

this is the link my recruiter gave me, and he said to make sure i keep in mind that there are variables, so this page is just a general guide, so you can get a ballpark figure.