7.2.1 Simplified outline of Part 2
This Part provides when a member’s home is considered to be a suitable own home.
If a member or any of their recognised family owns a home in the member’s housing benefit location or family benefit location, and the home is considered suitable, access to other forms of housing assistance under this Chapter may be limited.
There are various factors which will determine if the home is considered suitable.
There are circumstances when a member’s suitable own home will become unsuitable (Division 2 and 3). In this case, there are other forms of housing assistance that can be accessed under Chapter 7.
Guidance
- When a member has a suitable own home in their housing benefit location, they are not eligible for housing assistance when they live at that Service location.
- If the home stops being a suitable own home, then the member may be eligible for housing assistance under this Chapter.
- If a member purchases a suitable own home in their housing benefit location, their eligibility for housing assistance stops, unless the CDF has decide that housing assistance should continue until the end of a member’s posting.
- A member must notify the Defence Housing Australia Regional Director if they own, buy or sell a residential property in or near their housing benefit location.
