{"id":44795,"date":"2022-12-01T00:15:46","date_gmt":"2022-12-01T00:15:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/navytimes\/uncategorized\/2022\/12\/01\/system-snafu-leaves-junior-sailors-without-rent-money-for-months\/"},"modified":"2026-08-08T19:50:31","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T19:50:31","slug":"system-snafu-leaves-junior-sailors-without-rent-money-for-months","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/navytimes\/news\/your-navy\/2022\/12\/01\/system-snafu-leaves-junior-sailors-without-rent-money-for-months\/","title":{"rendered":"System snafu leaves junior sailors without rent money for months"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Roughly 175 junior sailors were forced to go without their Navy-provided rent money this fall due to a system hiccup that emerged as the service continues to transform its pay and benefits systems.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The issue arose in September and impacted petty officers 3rd class who were attending the Navy\u2019s nuclear power training school in Goose Creek, South Carolina, officials confirmed this week.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Students in that pipeline are required to live off base when they attend the portion of their education known as the Naval Nuclear Power Training Unit, also known as \u201cPrototype.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But when those junior sailors began Prototype, they did not receive the $1,455 in basic allowance for housing, or BAH, that they are entitled to. Instead, the sailors had to reach into their own pockets to make rent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Officials say the problem has since been fixed for all affected sailors, but multiple community members alerted Navy Times to the issue and reported that some junior sailors burned through savings, got help from family or took out loans to pay the rent.<\/p>\n\n\n\t