Variable Housing Allowance - Allowable Expenses for Offset
Abstract
A service member married a woman who owned a house with a first and second mortgage on it, and it became their family residence. She had been previously married, and she had taken the second mortgage to pay her former husband an amount due him in their community property settlement whereby she retained the house after their divorce. The regulation defining monthly housing costs for purposes of computing a uniformed service member's variable housing allowance (VHA) excludes the cost of a second mortgage taken for other than repairing, renovating or enlarging a residence since VHA is an allowance to help a member pay for housing in a high-cost area, not to satisfy a community property settlement. Neither may the second mortgage in these circumstances be considered a mortgage taken for the initial purchase of a residence.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Aug 19, 1988
- Accession Number
- AD1150614
Entities
People
- Milton J. Socolar
Organizations
- Comptroller General of the United States