setting up a BAH?

Question

Husband's in the military, we have a 2 year old He never set up BAH, is overseas and has been so for 6 months, i'm stuck at home busting my *** with a 40 hour + job to take care of our kid I'm lucky I even have insurance, how can we get a BAH set up or any allotment for that matter to be direct deposit to me? can we even do so since he put it off for so long? who can i report his lazy *** to cuz he's not taking care of his family or even helping! please help

like david m said (see answer)
but how do i contact administration?

Answer 1

Call your bases family service center. They can set you up with an ombudsman who can get in touch with his command to start bah. They will also be able to help you and work as a liason for you. Actually, any family service center would be able to point you in the right direction.

This is the number for Norfolk's family service center 1-800-FSC-LINE. or you can go to this website for further assistance. http://www.milfamsupcen.org/links.htm

You need help.... go after him and find it - the military doesn't like it when a spouse isn't taking care of their family - and they will do what it takes to rectify it.

Answer 2

Theres many holes in your question first. Are you staying in government housing? If so, it would have to be privitized (PPV) in order to get BAH and that goes straight to the company. Are you co located? If he's stationed overseas, your BAH rate is where you are. If He's on deployment, you should be getting family separation allowance. Insurance? Thats automatic if the you and the child is on his Page 2 form. Medical is covered 100% and family SGLI is automatic again provided the page 2 is updated. Contact the ombudsman for his command. The Command website should have a link for an e-mail. As stated from the person above, contacting FSC to get the ombudsman only gets the FSC involved which may involve opening a case. Thats like calling child protective service and stating that your child is sick all the time. Shoot me an e-mail and I will work with you in resovling this matter without getting anybody in trouble.

Living in korea stated to contact JAG. Bad advice. Last thing you want is for him to get a reduction in rank with forfieture of pay.

Answer 3

I recommend you contact the Judge Advocate General's office (JAG) at the nearest military post to where you live.

Take any and all paperwork you have with you, such as Marriage Certificate, Child's Birth Certificate, Bank Statements, etc., to validate your claim.

Do you have any military orders for your husband? Take those, also. And, make sure you take your military dependent ID Card with you.

When proven that your husband is neglecting his family by not depositing BAH payments, he won't have a choice; the payments will be automatically deducted from the paycheck.

Yes, it is possible to receive this BAH if/when proven you rightly deserve it.

The military takes a dim view about Soldiers neglecting their families.

Answer 4

but you seem to be confusing BAH with an allotment to YOU, regardless of wether he is getting BAH it would be paid to HIM period......or like said above if your housing is PPV it would go directly to the housing company.

Your complaint is that he is NOT sending you any money and yes again like said above the military does frown on this BUT please be warned once you go and report him then it sets in motion a whole BIG BALL and if you are able to get into his bank account then why are you not taking out what you need, it also appears your husband has gone Geo Bach.....was this his choice or yours or what the orders stated. if YOURS then I fail to see why you are moaning personally, after trekking around the world with both father in the mil and then with my husband in Navy fail to see why some many wives do not wish to travel with their men..............if HIS choice for you not to go then hun your marriage is in big trouble, even more so when you state you are not getting any money from him, if from a DUTY then he would have sorted [should have] everythihng before he left..............

Main question do you have a POA ???? if so sorting out the lack of cash is easy.

If you like contact me off site and will guide you the best I can......also just how far from base are you? as I am sure that if you are close then JUST by looking at the notice board at the NEX etc you would see what buidling to go for, for extra help, failing that JUST ask for Base legal.

Regards

Answer 5

get hold of his commander. usually bah is set up when you get married. hes supposed to take in a rental agreement along with the marriage license ect. if ya can get hold of his LES itll tell you if he his receiving it already. if not his commander will find out once you report this and hell get in trouble if he has been bsin. as for a direct deposit he can go directly to the mypay website and set it up. it takes 2 minutes at most to do this.

Answer 6

while I agree that a SM is obligate dto take care of their family, a few questions:

are his orders Acompanied or Unacompanied? If they are Acompanied and he has signed for base housing, he won't get BAH at all, not even if you haven't arrived over there yet.

If they are Unacompanied, how do you know he isn't getting BAH.. do you have read only access to his LES?

Ifhe is getting BAH and he isn;t sending it to you, technically, he isn;t required to. It's his money to use as he sees fit, but you can contact his Chain of Command and let them know he is shirking family oblogations. They cannot order him to give you acccess, but they can make hi slife dfficult if he doesn't.

Answer 7

if he is overseas then maybe BAH is not the first thing on his mind, but if you need to do it, try contacting admin from whatever unit he is from. i know they can handle everything for you

Answer 8

Is this a repost of a repost?
See the family counselor on base, still.

Answer 9

Talk to PAC