Temporary Housing

Temporary Housing

Has your sponsor contacted you yet? Your sponsor can be priceless as your family’s best connection to Benelux-Brunssum, both before your arrival and during your transition into our unique community. If you have a non-official email address, give it to your sponsor so that you may remain in communication after you leave your current base. It will also allow you to keep in communication with friends and family after you arrive by coming to the Army Community Service Resource Room to use our computers.

Payment of Temporary Lodging Allowance

TLA is paid in 15-day increments from the date of arrival at your new duty station. Personnel on TLA are required to review a minimum of five houses per week during this time. Service members are required to maintain a record of houses viewed. It is important to keep addresses, dates of visit, rental amounts, results of contact, and date of acceptance or reason of non-acceptance. The Housing Office will provide you a form to keep track of this information. If despite being aggressively sought, permanent housing is not obtained within the first 15 days, an additional 15-days allowance may be authorized by filling out a TLA extension request form with your housing representative. You must show your record of houses visited during the past 15-day period before your housing representative will provide you the extension. This process will continue until permanent housing is obtained. Reasons for not accepting a house must be very specific; all the houses listed by the Housing Office are considered adequate housing units in accordance with Installation Management Command-Europe’s quality of life standards. The USAG Benelux-Brunssum Housing Office's standard is to ensure service members and civilians are moved into general living quarters, unaccompanied personnel housing or private rental housing within 30-60 days of arrival in the Netherlands. Only emergency situations for exception to policy over this number of days will be handled and must be approved by the USAG Benelux Commander and G1.

You can check with the housing officer for a list of hotels in the area and to find out what your Temporary Lodging Allowance will be.

If you aren't happy with where you are staying (because of size, price or something else) ask the Housing Office about other hotels in the area.

All cats and dogs must be registered within 15 days of arrival in the Netherlands, and owners must provide certification of a current rabies vaccination at that time. Pets must wear collars or harnesses with the current owner’s identification tag securely attached.

Dangerous dog breeds, including American Pit Bulls, Stafford Bull Terriers, Bull Mastiffs, Dogo Argentine, Rhodesian Ridge Backs, Dogo-D-Bordeaux, Chinese Fighting Dogs, Doberman Pinchers and crossbreeds of these dogs, are strictly forbidden in government leased housing.

Payment of Temporary Lodging Allowance

TLA is paid in 15-day increments from the date of arrival at your new duty station. Personnel on TLA are required to review a minimum of five houses per week during this time. Service members are required to maintain a record of houses viewed. It is important to keep addresses, dates of visit, rental amounts, results of contact, and date of acceptance or reason of non-acceptance. The Housing Office will provide you a form to keep track of this information. If despite being aggressively sought, permanent housing is not obtained within the first 15 days, an additional 15-days allowance may be authorized by filling out a TLA extension request form with your housing representative. You must show your record of houses visited during the past 15-day period before your housing representative will provide you the extension. This process will continue until permanent housing is obtained. Reasons for not accepting a house must be very specific; all the houses listed by the Housing Office are considered adequate housing units in accordance with Installation Management Command-Europe’s quality of life standards. The USAG Benelux-Brunssum Housing Office's standard is to ensure service members and civilians are moved into general living quarters, unaccompanied personnel housing or private rental housing within 30-60 days of arrival in the Netherlands. Only emergency situations for exception to policy over this number of days will be handled and must be approved by the USAG Benelux Commander and G1.

You can check with the housing officer for a list of hotels in the area and to find out what your Temporary Lodging Allowance will be.

If you aren't happy with where you are staying (because of size, price or something else) ask the Housing Office about other hotels in the area.

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