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ArmyVern said:Perhaps you are considering it a pay cut because you have just become used to receiving it as an over-and-above-entitlement benefit??
Kind of like arguing that troops should receive foreign duty allowances indefinitely -- just because they have become used to receiving them (and spending them!!) and consider it part of their "pay." Well, it's only part of your "pay" while the need (thus entitlement) exists.
Sure PLD shouldn't be considered pay, but it was/is given to soldiers who live in high cost of living areas (big problem with the formula if you get it in Halifax but not Edmonton)
Isn't it used to off set the higher cost of living compared to a certain base? So if I am given this extra money to help me live in a more expensive environment then how can I not consider that part of my income and rely on it? Especially in those areas that get close to $1000 a month PLD? It is wrong to give someone that money and at the same time say don't rely on this and you could lose it at any time, so don't make any big purchases (house) with the extra money. Its too easy for someone to sit in their city where the average house price is 239,000 and criticize the fella who lives in a market where the average house price is 539,000, because he used the PLD in his budgeting (I know more goes into the current formula than the price of housing, but housing prices are a decent indication of how expensive it is to live in a certain area).
(It doesn't affect me at all, either way I'm good, but I do know some people are going to get caught in a financial mess if they lose the PLD)
What I don't understand in that message is how there are two different dates for reduction in PLD 01 Apr 08 and 01 Apr 09, seems like the officers get a break.
That big payday a few years ago worked wonders for those who get spec pay those who don't get spec pay got what I like to consider "the shaft".