# 2021-197 Pay and Benefits, Post Living Differential

Case summary

F&R Date: 2022-06-22

The grievor contested the cancellation of his claim for Post Living Differential (PLD) allowance on enrolment caused by the release of Address to Indicating Group (AIG) 006.21 on 29 April 2021. This AIG directed that all in-progress enrolment PLD allowance claims be ceased or denied. As the grievor was one of the claims listed, the administration staff determined that the grievor's claim was to cease immediately. The grievor believed that he was eligible for PLD allowance from the date of his enrolment until his posting became restricted.

The Initial Authority rejected the grievance indicated that it was submitted beyond the allowable time limits.

The Committee noted that to be entitled to a PLD allowance, a member must occupy a principal residence that is located within a PLD area (PLDA). The Committee further noted that in the case of a newly enrolled member like the grievor, the Compensation Benefits Instructions for the Canadian Forces (CBI) 205.45 provides eligibility when a principal residence is located at “the place where the member's household goods and effects were located on enrolment, if that place is a place of duty and the member is not authorized to move their household goods and effects at public expense to their place of duty”. The Committee found that while the grievor's residence upon enrolment was located in a PLDA and his household goods and effects were located there, he was neither moved there at public expense for service reasons, nor posted to that location. Furthermore, the Committee found that the grievor did not perform any military duties in that area on his enrolment; rather, he first performed military duties when he was posted outside of the PLDA where he enrolled.

As such, the Committee found that the grievor's circumstances did not meet the criteria for eligibility for PLD allowance set out in CBI 205.45 and therefore, not entitled to the PLD allowance.