Homeless Veteran (Active duty) help?

[SarSardonic]

My husband got sent back to his base from deployment due to medical issues.
He is being MED-BOARDed out. (They said that it will take a minimum of 280 days, which will be the end of February.)

For his deployment I moved (400 miles away from post) to my home town/state to be close to family. (My apartment lease (1 year) is up in March 2012, when he would have been done with his deployment.) We can't afford to move.

He is not allowed to stay in the barracks, there is no one he can stay with (he's asked a bunch of people), and there are no homeless shelters nearby.

He is currently staying in his rental vehicle (which he has for only a few more days, and can't afford to get for longer.)

He's been to Housing, some Veteran support place, and he's talked to several people in/up his chain of command.

Any advice?

Thank you, and God bless!


PS, I'm sorry for all my questions. I'm sure you're all tired of seeing posts for me. Again, I'm sorry. Thank you to those of you who have been so helpful.

 

[Gishin]

If he's active duty he's still getting paid, and if he can't live in the barracks then he gets a housing allowance, so why not rent an apartment on year long lease, use his discharge papers as a reason to terminate his lease early and use his final housing move to move to your apartment?

 

[SarSardonic]

We don't have enough money.

His BAH is not enough to cover our apartment in my hometown and an other apartment or hotel at his base.

In March I signed a 1 year lease (because he deployed in March and would be done with deployment [and the military] in March/April 2012.)
I have no new paperwork from him that would let me terminate the lease without penalty....
Even if I could get out of the lease, we don't have the money to move 400 miles to where he is....

He's been to Housing several times.
If we get a divorce, he'd get barracks and I'd still get BAH (for the kids).
If I move out there with him we can get on-post housing in 1-3 months (but I can't get out of the lease, we don't have the money to move, and it doesn't solve the problem of him being homeless now....)

:'(


Any advice and/or prayers much appreciated.

God bless.

 

[supersoldier71]

Have you spoken to Army Emergency Relief? They can give you a zero interest loan or even a grant to get you through, and it can all be approved with his commanding officer's signature.

Additionally, take a look at ArmyOneSource.com. There are a LOT of resources to be found there.

What base is he at?

 

[Gabe7]

His chain of command would make room in the barracks. Trust me. If he really needs a place to stay call the local news station and tell them an active duty soldier is homeless and tell them where your husband is. He will never want for shelter while he is on active duty after that.

 

[briareos]

so... what happened? This is a chain of command issue, there is no way a company commander would allow a soldier to live out of a car if he knew about it, the commander would get himmed up for that becuase it's dangerous they aren't doing their job.
They would personally take over the job of managing his finances, put him into the barracks as a geographical bachelor... etc or take him to finance and get him an AER loan.

How did it work out?

Honestly, it's fine that you post these questions here but if your husband takes the initiative and has the resiliency to take his legitimate problems up his chain of command, they will get fixed. If he walked into IG or legal and says "i'm living out of a car and my chain of command isn't helping me" he'd be the biggest thing going in that command till it got fixed and I promise you he'd be put in the barracks at least for a few days. The tools are their. Better yet, you yourself can call that BCT or BN level legal or IG office and yell at the parralegal and I promise you it would get fixed, your husband would probly go through a good bit of pain but it would get fixed and if you cannot afford it, hes probly gonna have someone from the military dealing with how you spend your money but you'll be taken care of.