Living

Pet policy change

Animal lovers now only need to tell the Pinnacle National Service Centre that they have a pet rather than asking for written permission to share the...

Award for work with military community

A professional coach has been awarded a Coaching Impact Award for her work with spouses of UK armed forces personnel.   Tina Smith, pictured front ...

Huge response to housing call-out

Thousands of serving personnel and families responded to a questionnaire that will be used as evidence to help shape military housing for decades to...

New strategy for military homes

As a result of a deal in January 2025 to buy back 36,000 SFA from Annington, a new Defence Housing Strategy Team was set up to review and propose ch...

Running a business from home update

In January 2025 DIO paused applications from those wishing to run a business from a service home so that it could conduct a review. With the aim of...

Covenant Commitments

There are lots of military allowances which help you out financially when moving around but are you aware of how the Armed Forces Covenant can help ...

Avoiding the scammers

By Paul Fox, Money and Pensions Service No one thinks they will be a victim of fraud or caught out by a scam, but it happens far more than you migh...