When you first start you basic training you will not have access to your full wage. You will be looking at £50 per week cash, which you will need for weekly essentials. You would need to speak to the pay office and inform them of your situation so they could pay into your IVA. the rest of your pay will go into a holding account and will be paid into your bank at the end of your basic training. I did 10 years in the Engineers so times may have changed slightly on how much you receive weekly.
As for buying kit when you go on tour. It would not be essential to buy things as the issue is pretty good now, although some people do buy there own things.
Good luck if you decide to go for it, you will have a great time.
Last edited by LoneRanger on Sun Sep 14, 2008 7:42 pm, edited 1 time in total.
When you first start you basic training you will not have access to your full wage. You will be looking at £50 per week cash, which you will need for weekly essentials. You would need to speak to the pay office and inform them of your situation so they could pay into your IVA. the rest of your pay will go into a holding account and will be paid into your bank at the end of your basic training. I did 10 years in the Engineers so times may have changed slightly on how much you receive weekly.
As for buying kit when you go on tour. It would not be essential to buy things as the issue is pretty good now, although some people do buy there own things.
Good luck if you decide to go for it, you will have a great time.
So do you think they would pay into my iva well i'm on basic training becaause if they dont then I would not be able to join because my IVA would fail! i'm definitly going for it!
Chris if you are honest and declare your IVA during the recruitment process they will have to. When I started basic training we wereall asked if we had regular payments that must be made. that would be when u pipe up. If questions were asked then you have already declared it. they have to pay it as long as you can prove it needs paying and at the end of the day it is still your money.
those who join with a mortgage have that pain out of there salary. Just remember a recruits salray is quite low.
I remember joining the RAf as a boy entrant and having to march up to be paid £17 for the week.
Ahh life was simple then!!!
Kit wise you do get some decent kit now but you really will probably want to keep up with the lads/lasses and buy some bits and bobs to make like in afghanistan and Iraq more comfortable!!!(dont let that put you off,you will love it)
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When you first start you basic training you will not have access to your full wage. You will be looking at £50 per week cash, which you will need for weekly essentials. You would need to speak to the pay office and inform them of your situation so they could pay into your IVA. the rest of your pay will go into a holding account and will be paid into your bank at the end of your basic training. I did 10 years in the Engineers so times may have changed slightly on how much you receive weekly.
Thanks again for your reply i know recruit pay is low have been told it's £780 a month after tax,food,living costs etc I dont have that to myself now! so I should be ok in that respect. that is the only debt I have my IVA. im in rented accomodation at the moment but obviously I would be leaving if i join the army only other things are my internet etx where i'm in a contract so not sure if i would after clear up with these or just cancel/ has I would probably stop at friends and parents when I come home.
As for buying kit when you go on tour. It would not be essential to buy things as the issue is pretty good now, although some people do buy there own things.
Good luck if you decide to go for it, you will have a great time.
I'm pretty certain that you get the full wage paid to you now once you start your training - but best to check as times do change as the Army gradually realises it is now in the 21st century!
"Pay correct Sir!" and then you had to stand counting out the money, quivering whilst the Pay Sergeant glared at you (and at the WRAC centre in Guildford I can assure you that she was a monster!). I could never get my salutes in the right place!!
Angela, who is a colleague of mine, last week took her son to Harrogate to start his basic training, so I will enquire more about this tomorrow.
when i was in the QARANC back in the day we also had to march up for our wages during training anyway
salute turn and walk away LOL
those were the best days of my life
