Our Stories in RAF News - We often hear from serving personnel who have
claimed, or tried to claim, allowances, such as Disturbance Allowance or
the Continuity of Education Allowance (CEA) as they believed they are
entitled only to discover later on that they are not. In many instances
it is because of a particular family circumstance or because they do not
meet the criteria. Some cases then require the service person to repay
monies or...More information »
A senior Army officer has been found guilty at Swindon Crown Court of
falsely claiming Continuity of Education Allowance to the tune of
£188,000. Lt Col Robert Henry Jolleys was claiming CEA to send his three
children to school at Stonyhurst College but failed to report a change
of circumstances when he and his wife separated...More information »
A worried mum tells of the issues with her daughter who has had to be taken out of boarding school because her husband's assignment has been reassessed as ‘stable’ from a CEA perspective. The family accept the reason for withdrawing funding, but are worried about the major and negative impact on their child. After spending four years in the system the daughter is finding it really hard to settle, is anxious and depressed. This worried mum wants those who make the rules about continuity of education to realise the impact that moving a young child from a secure environment can have on those the system is looking to protect. Click here
The Federation is your voice - so what has it been saying of late? In this latest Federation update we report on the high level activity of: the continuing fall-out from the SDSR; A 'Where are we Now?' on the Armed Forces Covenant and what the Federation is contributing; Our views on the review of CEA and where it is heading; Our input into the Future Accommodation Project Team; The conferences, meetings, briefings we have attended and the units we have visited. We also report on subjects being reported to us and what we are doing with the information and we give an update on our Communications strategy. It is worth having a quick scan and perhaps you too can add to our evidence by giving your opinion, as it all adds weight to the arguments we are putting forward on your behalf. Those at the top don't want our views, they want yours...More information »
A member of Facebook has posted a piece on the RAF Families Federation wall on the subject of CEA. It reads: "I am disgusted with the RAF at the moment and the whole boarding school allowance! Looks like they are trying to take it off all ground crew so its now turning it into a them and us allowance! In the process they are putting stress on families especially those who have had to take there child out of boarding... Chairman of the RAF FF, Dawn McCafferty responds, in part Dawn agrees by saying "Whilst the perceived lack of future mobility undermines an on-going entitlement to CEA, to remove a child who has already settled into a boarding environment when the serving parents were previously assessed as mobile, is to jeopardise the very continuity of education the allowance was supposed to deliver ...More information »
