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Relocation Benefits

Know your benefits! Find links to compensation and relocation benefits and allowances below.

Canadian Armed Forces relocation directive

Core policy determining relocation benefits (web version).


Military Benefits (Department of National Defence) Includes links to Know your Benefits Compensation and Benefits Instruction (CBI), Leave Policy Manual, Relocation, Health and Dental Benefits, Death, Disability & Injury Benefits, Severance & Gratuities, Pensions, and Temporary Duty Travel Instructions.


Publicly Accessible Links 

Canadian Armed Forces Relocation Directive (CAFRD)

This directive contains information regarding the benefits and applicable funding available to relocate CAF members, their dependants (if applicable) and their household goods and effects. 

Canadian Forces Housing Differential

The Canadian Forces Housing Differential (CFHD) policy is a sophisticated approach (inclusive of GBA+ analysis) with the goal of assisting CAF members in adjusting to housing costs in different locations within Canada. 

DAOD 5003-6, Contingency Cost Moves for Personal Reasons, Compassionate Status and Compassionate Posting

Personal circumstances may arise that temporarily limit a CAF member's deployability or ability to perform duties. In these circumstances, the CAF member may be given special consideration in the form of compassionate status, with or without a compassionate posting. 

Chapter 10 – Foreign Services Instructions - Canada.ca 

The intent of the allowances and benefits under the Military Foreign Service Instructions is to recognize and to facilitate a member's service outside Canada and to ensure that, as much as possible, members should be neither better nor worse off than their counterparts serving in Canada. 

Chapter 14. Moves to Intended Place of Residence (IPR) - Canada.ca 

Sets out the relocation benefits and expenses applicable for a move to an IPR on: 

  1. release from the Regular Force; 
  2. transfer from the Regular Force to the Reserve Force; or 
  3. a member being deceased, officially reported missing, becoming a prisoner of war, being interned or detained by a foreign power, or declared mentally incapacitated. 

DWAN Only Accessible Links 

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