Eligibility
When you're not eligible
Rates and payment
If you and your partner are both serving in a remote location, you'll both get the allowance, but at a lower rate.
Absence from the remote location
Moving locations
Example
You’re a member who is posted to Tindal.
Your family stays in Darwin.
The rate you were getting in Darwin is $9,770 a year.
The rate you would get in Tindal if you have accompanied resident family is $17,105.
Because your family stays in Darwin and becomes your unaccompanied resident family, your rate of allowance in Tinal will be $8,555 a year.
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