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Does the army pay your apartment rent for the time you are deployed if you're in the Reserves?

If you live alone in an apartment, and then your Army Reserves unit gets deployed will the army pay to keep your apartment up? If not, do they pay to move your things into storage? It seems like a Reservist would want to keep his apartment up, it would be very stressful to come back and not have a home to go to and then have to apartment hunt again, and move again, etc. I should specify; when I say "live alone" I am meaning a single, non-married person.

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1. I was told that you would have to send money to someone you trust to pay your bills while you are away.
2. You need to talk to your finance section. In the AF they will pay a reservist BAH while deployed but I'm not sure about the Army. I've heard of the Army making dependants move out of base housing and go back to the states while their spouses are deployed (I'm currently overseas.) If they will pay you BAH consider putting all your stuff in storage anyway. Under the soldiers and sailors civil relief act your apartment must terminate your lease with out any penalty fees if you have orders to deploy or PCS. You can save a bunch of money up.
3. You will have to pay all your bills while you are deployed. Take a check book. They do not pay your rent for you, but you will be a Basic Allowance for Housing added to your pay for it. A lot soldiers (active duty) I know to include myself use online banking to handle the bills. You can even set up auto pay each month for some bills on internet banking. Another option is to set up an allotment out of your pay. This means the Army will send the amount you designate to any payee you want. Just beware it takes about a month to shut it off on the other side. I am not sure on the reserves, but on the active side, they will put your things into storage if you deploy. Also, military deployment/PCS is usually a penalty free way of ending a lease if you give 30 days notice.
4. no. you might qualify for BAH and it would be up to YOU to pay the rent.
5. They don't physically write a check and pay your rent, but you will receive BAH, which in your case will most likely be much more than your rent.
6. Once the reserves or national guard are deployed you become active duty and get the same things active duty are paid, which includes BAH- so you will get money to be able to keep paying for your appartment etc but you'd have to have someone pay it for you or do it yourself.... I paid my own bills while I was deployed. I brought my check book and was lucky enough to have good internet connection.
7. A reservist who gets deployed will still have to pay his/her own debts to include an apartment. That said, the Army will give you what is called "BAH" which is on top of your basic pay and is meant to cover housing/apartment related costs. The Army will not pay your apartment complex for you while you are away. You will either have to designate someone to be your Power of Attorney so that he/she can do business like this while you are away (only do this if you REALLY trust that person with your money), or just write the checks yourself and mail them to your landlord.