Relocation
If your career means you have to move to another part of the country or overseas, we can help you with the cost. Answer questions if you want to see what you may be entitled to
Help with your move
As a member of the Armed Forces, we can help you with some of the things you will need when you prepare for the process of moving house if you are posted to a new duty station. Moving house is expensive and stressful and these benefits are designed to make it easier for you.
- No eligibility information available
Service Accommodation
MOD provides good quality, subsidised living accommodation for Service people and their families
- No eligibility information available
Disturbance Expenses
If you need to move house because of your Service duties, you could be eligible for a contribution towards your expenses
- No eligibility information available
Movement and Storage of Personal Effects
Move and/or store your belongings when assigned to a new location
- No eligibility information available
Insurance Allowance
If you need to move your belongings for Service reasons, you can claim back the cost of transit insurance
- No eligibility information available
Relocation Leave
Extra leave to help you and your family settle in to a new location
- No eligibility information available
Refund of Legal Expenses
If you are a homeowner who is permanently assigned to a new duty station and you decide to sell your home and buy another at your new duty station, you could get a contribution towards your legal expenses
- No eligibility information available
Final Tour of Duty
If you're leaving the Service, get help in settling yourself and your family in a new area in the UK.
Allowances for while you are there
The amount of time you spend and the location you are posted to come with some allowances. These are what is available through the Armed Forces while you are relocated.
- No eligibility information available
Longer Separation Allowance
If you’re separated from your duty station or family home for an extended period of time, you could be eligible for Longer Separation Allowance
- No eligibility information available
Local Overseas Allowance
If you serve in certain areas overseas or on a ship outside UK waters, you may receive this allowance to help with the cost of day-to-day living
- No eligibility information available
Overseas Loan Service Allowance
If you’re in a Loan Service appointment, you can get compensation for the unique challenges you face when serving with a foreign military service overseas
- No eligibility information available
Northern Ireland Motor Insurance Refunds
If you’re on a permanent assignment in Northern Ireland and have to pay additional costs on your motor insurance as a result, you could be eligible for a refund
- No eligibility information available
Recruitment and Retention Allowance for London
If you live and work in certain locations in London, you could receive this allowance to compensate for the higher cost of living
- No eligibility information available
Northern Ireland Resident Supplement
If you're on a permanent assignment in Northern Ireland, you could receive a daily rate to make up for the extra pressures of your service there.
Supporting you with travelling costs
We can offer financial support to help you get to your new assignment, your daily travel to and from duty, when you and your family want to visit each other or when you need a break from working in remote locations.
- No eligibility information available
Privately Arranged Passage
If you choose to drive to a new overseas duty station using your own private motor vehicle instead of getting a flight, you could get assistance with your travel costs
- No eligibility information available
Home to Duty Travel
With Home to Duty Travel, you can claim a non-taxable contribution towards your commuting costs
- No eligibility information available
Get You Home
If you regularly travel home from your duty station at weekends, you could get help with your travel costs
- No eligibility information available
Get You Home (Early Years)
If you're doing your Phase 1 training, you could get assistance with the cost of getting home from your duty station
- No eligibility information available
Get You Home (Overseas)
If you’re assigned overseas, you can get help towards the cost of return journeys from your duty station to the UK
- No eligibility information available
Respite Journeys (Remote Locations)
If you take respite breaks because you’re stationed in certain remote or inhospitable locations, you could receive a contribution towards the cost of your travel
- No eligibility information available
Northern Ireland Journeys
If you are permanently stationed in Northern Ireland you could be eligible for a contribution towards the cost of travel to and from Great Britain
- No eligibility information available
Respite Provision
If you’re working overseas this allowance contributes toward yours and your family costs when you take a break
- No eligibility information available
Families Assistance for Visits Abroad
If you’re serving overseas you could claim financial assistance with food and accommodation costs when your immediate family comes to visit you
Clothing
Some assignments will require you to wear special clothes or civilian clothes daily. Rather than incurring this cost all by yourself, we have some allowances that may help.
- No eligibility information available
Civilian Clothing Daily Allowance and Civilian Clothing Annual Grant
If you have to wear civilian clothing while on duty, you could claim an allowance to help cover the cost
- No eligibility information available
Climatic Clothing Grant for Hot Posts
if you are required to wear civilian clothes when working in certain hot countries overseas, this helps cover the cost