I know that if you are overseas alot, you want to give your DCs continuity and that is fine BUT, if you are UK based and your wife & DCs don't even live with you, is it really fair to claim the boarding school allowance?
Met up with some old friends at the weekend & very boasty guy was there who nailed me to the floor with tales of his cushy life. He is quite high up in the army (Lt Col) and he was bragging about how the Army paid for his pied a terre in London, whilst his wife and the DCs lived out in Dorset (at her Dad's huge mansion) and the army paid whatever percentage they pay for his DCs to go to boarding school.
I'm not sure if it was just his manner but it didn't quite seem right to me. Surely that allowance is for those in the army who are deployed all over the show & who haven't spent the last 4 years in London?
Am so not armed forces bashing, as I have a great deal of respect for them and the sacrifices they make. Anyway, no doubt I'll probably be flamed, but was just curious.