Navy BAH / Separation Pay question?

Question

my husband is in the navy, we got married this past may... We only just began receiving BAH in July and still have not receieved sep. pay. Correct me if I'm wrong but I thought sep. pay was paid if he has been in his a-school (pre-buds) will we be re-imbursed for the months we were not paid? Where should we go for help with this situation seeing as the financial office has been very unhelpful (loosing documents we have turned in!)

Answer 1

nope.  Not eligible for Family Sep as you are an acquired dependent and his orders do not indicate he has a family.  OR if you are living there( regardless of whether you were given permission by the Navy to do so or not) you don't qualify for FSH

when he gets his next set of orders to wherever and if they are Unaccompanied, Family Sep will go into effect after 30 days of him being there.

Answer 2

If you are not in the military yourself, your husband rates separation pay. Even if you are, you do, but there are stipulations if you are active duty yourself. And yes, they technically owe back pay, but--now, I am a Marine so it should be the same because it is Department of the Navy with the same rules--when I went through, they usually worked out all all the back pay issues when you hit the fleet. So, when he hits his first unit they will work with him. I lost alot of documents when I was going through--I had a very long school--and they still filled all my claims when I hit the fleet. The best way to do it, is to save all the documents, however, you can always find a way if you lose them. The two of you rated that money, so you should get it, sometimes the government just takes awhile to pay it out. But, if he is receiving comrats, which is money for his own food, you do not rate sep pay. You can only get one or the other unless you are deployed in certain areas. If he is getting paid to buy his own food, you will not get sep pay.  

Answer 3

If he is on unaccompanied orders, school, TDY, TAD for longer than 30 days away from his family then he will qualify for Family Separation of $250 per month.  If you are living there with him then he doesn't qualify for Family Separation at all.  If he does qualify then he needs to find out why it hasn't been paid.  But it has to be for over 30 consecutive days, no a few days here, few days there.  

You can't do anything about it at all unless you have a Specific Power of Attorney (POA) to handle financial issues.  He has to be the one that speaks to PSD/PSA about it and get it squared away.