# 2021-306 Pay and Benefits, Post Living Differential

Case summary

F&R Date: 2022-02-21

The grievor was denied retroactive Post Living Differential (PLD) benefits during the period where he was unauthorized to move his household goods and effects (HG&E) from his dwelling at his place of enrolment.

The Initial Authority, the Director General Compensation and Benefits, refused to accept the grievance on the grounds that it was submitted outside the time limit prescribed in Queen's Regulations and Orders for the Canadian Forces, article 7.06.

Compensation and Benefits Instructions (CBI) 205.45 defines a principal residence as a dwelling occupied by the member or their dependants, situated at the place where the member's HG&E were located on enrolment, if that place is a place of duty to which they have not been authorized to move the HG&E at public expense. The Committee found that the grievor was not posted to, nor did he perform his normal military duties at his place of enrolment and, therefore, his dwelling was not located at a place of duty. The Committee then concluded that the grievor did not have a principal residence in a PLD area during the period relevant to his grievance as required by CBI 205.45.

As the grievor's circumstances did not meet the purpose and criteria for eligibility for PLD set out in applicable policy, the Committee found that he was not entitled to the PLD benefit for the periods in question and recommended that the Final Authority not afford redress.