# 2019-052 Pay and Benefits, Entitlement to Rations and Quarters at public expense, Separation Expense

Case summary

F&R Date: 2020-01-28

The Committee had to determine whether the grievor should have been managed under the mitigation strategy as directed by the Chief Military Personnel such that he would have been entitled to receive rations at public expense and daily incidentals for the period from 1 February 2013 to 27 January 2016.

The Committee found that the grievor met the conditions to be eligible for the mitigations strategy and recommended that the Final Authority (FA) afford the grievor redress by remitting the charges related to the rations for that period pursuant to Queen's Regulations and Orders for the Canadian Forces (QR&O) 208.52.

FA decision summary

The FA, the Chief of the Defence Staff, agreed with the Committee that the grievor was not entitled to rations and incidentals because the grievor was posted, not attach posted at the relevant time. Although the grievor had met the criteria to participate in the mitigation strategy implemented when rations and incidentals were ceased under the Separation Expense benefit, the mitigation strategy required that members be attach posted. Regarding the appropriate remedy, the FA agreed with the Committee that the grievor's rations charges should be remitted pursuant to QR&O 208.52 because of the misadministration of the grievor's file. In addition to the remedy recommended by the Committee, the FA directed that the grievor be attach posted retroactively and, accordingly, that he be granted incidentals for 365 days thereafter.