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OK, here goes.

Had a 3 year tour in Cyprus, and at the end of the tour they kick you out of your Married Quarter 4 days before your flight from Akrotiri back to Brize Norton. This means that they have to pay for you and your family to stay in a hotel locally for those 4 nights.

Now like most people I'm unable to afford 4 nights of €250 so I applied for an advance of €1000, with the intention of submitting a full claim upon return to the UK, but before I had a chance to submit the claim (the very next pay day) they took the equivalent of €1000 out of my wages as a recovery of expenses.

This has basically left us with not enough money to pay our bills this month and we've had to withdraw £900 from our savings (to be replaced when they pay me the claim back).

Is this taking the pi$$ or are they perfectly entitled to take that much money out of my wages in a oner?
 
The reclaim is automatic 30 days after anticipated end of duty date. Get your claim in, it only takes a few days.

If you want to PM me I can look at the date line of your advance and reclaim. Wont change the price of fish though.
 
First and foremost, how long between receiving the advance and them recovering the cost?

Secondly, when you looked at JPA for your payslip and noticed this amount had been taken why did you not submit the claim. It would have been paid before your pay had hit the bank. Therefore you would not have felt the deduction.

Thirdly, I was under the impression that they would only take 4 days pay when recouping costs. HOWEVER, if you have been paid anything extra, ie: subs pay, disturbance, etc, then they can, will and have taken more.
 
Forgot to mention:

As soon as I realised they were taking the money I submitted the claim, but the admin section in Cyprus were jack b@stards when it came to my clearing procedure.

You have to get a Cypriot bank account while on tour there and part of the clearance chit from PSF has an entry for the bank manager to sign to prove you've closed the account. This is for PSF to then remove the account from my JPA as I have no access to it (being a foreign bank account), but rather than that they just changed the percentage of my wages to 100% into my UK account and left my Cypriot account as the primary account.

This meant that they paid the claim into an account that was closed, it pinged around the Cypriot banking system for a week, before being pinged back to the MOD money bucket. Thing is, it took another 2 weeks for the guys at JPA to pay it back into my UK account.

It's all sorted now, money back in the savings (knew it would be useful one day), but I was just wondering how much they are legally allowed to take from your wages.
 
If it as you say then Cyprus HR have not followed their own procedures correctly. Whilst normally you would only have a maximum of 4 days gross taken from your acct in the cases of I-Expenses it can all be taken in a oner (on the grounds that you've had the advance and should submitted the I-Expense).
You're MDR (minimum drawing rate, 50% of your net pay) is the amount that normallly deductions will not take you below but this does not include allowances (for the reasons above).
 
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