Moving from overseas to DDESS

Jan 3, 2020

So, a couple of questions and something to share:

Q1. What advice can you give us about moving to DDESS? Is there anything that we should know in order to make the move go more smoothly?

We are having HHG shipped to our HOR and have requested the car go to the VPC closest to the new duty station.

Q2. Any thoughts on us being made to reimburse RAT since we won't be here another year?

To share: I will lose this year of service in terms of salary lane because I will not have served 150 days. Additionally, I go backwards in lane as my MA+30 is not honored in DDESS as it was here, specifically that the +30 must be attained after the MA if under the DDESS umbrella.

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Cookie I earned an MA45 while in DoDDS and it was honored once I moved to DDESS. Can't speak for the PCS process because I was a milspouse at the time. This was 4 years ago.

Jan 3, 2020

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Icanread Because DoDDS gives up to 10 years of experience on the salary schedule and DDESS only gives 5 years, if you go from DoDDS to DDESS, do you go down on the pay scale?

Jan 3, 2020

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haha My understanding is that your DoDEA overseas salary step would be matched with the closest DoDEA Americas step, so you would not generally go down in salary (with the exception of salary lanes, which may not match up). That's one of the reasons some DoDEA overseas teachers go back stateside before they retire to benefit from the higher salary to im...See More

Jan 3, 2020

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IsItFriday? HR will probably mess up your leave. As you are an older teacher, you may have built up a substantial amount of leave. There's a good chance that the leave number on your Dodds LES won't be reflected properly properly on your first LES from Ddess, or your second, or your third....

Jan 4, 2020

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DDESSHopeful Icanread--I just went through the process so this is how it went. DDESS gave me 100% of the years with DoDDS, except for the year I entered in January and the year I am in now. Neither of those--the first half year and the one I am in now--meets the 150 day measurement mark for "a year" in the eyes of DDESS. They then sent me a form to give to the ...See More

Jan 6, 2020

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