Relocation Leave

What’s it for?

Relocation Leave is designed to give you and your family time to settle in when you’re assigned between or within theatres, or from one overseas location to another. For the purposes of this allowance, there are three theatres:

• the UK

• North West Europe

• the rest of the world

What do I get?

• You may be entitled to up to ten days of Relocation Leave on assignments between theatres, or from one overseas location to another overseas location on a permanent assignment.

• If you move within one of the above theatres, you may be entitled to up to five days of Relocation Leave for normal moves if you are a trained-strength Service person after joining your first unit or having completed Phase 2 or Phase 3 training courses with a duration of six months or more. Your Commanding Officer can extend your Relocation Leave to up to ten working days. A normal move is one resulting from an assignment order that requires a change of Service Family Accommodation, Single Living Accommodation, or substitute equivalents; Residence at Work Address; or Selected Place of Residence.

• You may be entitled to one day of Relocation Leave for local moves. These are normally within the same establishment between service-provided accommodation, or on change of position when no change of accommodation is required.

How do I claim this?

Providing the leave entitlement has been added on JPA by your Unit HR, and you have the agreement of your chain of command, you can book using your own personal device. Visit the My Leave app, part of the My Series (Defence Gateway account required).

You can also book it on JPA. The Request for absence (leave) self-service user guide, which can be found at JPA user guides (defnet), tells you how to do this.

If you don’t have access to JPA, then you should send JPA Form R001, which can be found at JPA forms (defnet), to your line manager.