"Andrew Chaplin" <ab.chaplin@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>"Eugene Griessel" <eugene@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
>news:485f7053.2621899@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>> "Andrew Chaplin" <ab.chaplin@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>>
>>>"CJ Adams" <bluebell@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
>>>news:k753j5-t35.ln1@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>>>> Andrew Chaplin wrote:
>>>> .
>>>>>
>>>>> Only as chattels, much like title and rights to other things viewed
as
>>>>> property.
>>>>
>>>> Is that why DF&E are lumped together?
>>>
>>>;^)
>>
>> What happens when you and the missus are both awficers in the grey
>> funnel line? Is she still a dependant? Or are only the sprogs?
>
>Both spouses in the "married service couple" are members within the terms
of
>the NDA and QR&O. Only the sprogs are then the "D". Policy writers wrote
reams
>upon such things for policies about "married service couples" because so
many
>benefits (e.g.: entitlement to MQs) vary depending on family status.
Since I
>left, they have legalized same-*** marriages, so I imagine the wonks have
been
>busy. They take MSCs into account in posting plots, usually as a means to
save
>money while avoiding jacking people about, but the needs of service are
>supposed to be paramount. It gets complicated as spouses rise in rank, as
you
>might imagine.
I can remember the panic back here in the early 1970s when spouses
were allowed to join permanent force. Until then they had had some
sort of tem****ary status which meant lower pay and no benefits, other
than that they receiced as spouses. However even before that we had
spouses where one was serving in the medical corps - permanent force -
and the other in one of the other forces also permanent. I think
those cases were handled ad hoc and one of the couple had to declare
themselves as the de facto head of the family and would get the
deductions, etc. We had a case where I grew up that the matron of the
hospital was a Major and her husband was a Sergeant-Major. Made
social events rather difficult and great tact was exercised during
mess nights, especially.
Eugene L Griessel
The only time to be positive is when you are positive you are wrong.
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