How to Calculate PPM/DITY Move - UPDATED FOR 2023

An extensive DITY move calculator for personally procured moves. Are you planning on executing a PPM/DITY move during 2023? Here's how to calculate your PPM/dity move's reimbursement cost. As you may already know, when doing a PPM/Dity move the government reimburses you the 90-95% of what it would have cost them to move you instead. With this incentive in mind, if you could carry out the above move spending less than the government's quote then you get to keep this difference as a profit.

DITY Move: How to find out if it is worth it

When the subject of DITY (now called PPM) moves comes to the table, one can receive mixed opinions. One opinion highlights the profits you can make and the full control that it gives you, but others think that it is not worth the hassle. Let's find out if it is really worth it or not.

DITY move or Don’t?

 As a military spouse, you probably bear the brunt of a PCS (DITY) move. Beforehand your service member, like a hopeful gold digger of old, told you tales of all the money you could make (maybe thousands of dollars!) if you moved yourselves. But you’ve heard the do-it-yourself rumors, too. Those horrific stories of families who, like the pioneers, came to the end of road busted, broke and bedraggled.
So is a DITY (now called a Personally Procured Move or PPM) worth the hassle? It depends. On these pages you’ll find the scoop on what has changed in recent years. And you’ll hear DITY stories from milspouses who’ve done it.
Here’s the biggest news: Reimbursement rates decreased in April 2017, when the services changed to the Defense Personal Property System. The new system made moving companies bid against each other and that competition lowered prices for the military. That change was a cost-saver for the government, but it generally decreased the reimbursement for military families. They now receive about 95 percent of the amount the military would pay a moving carrier for the same work.

10 Important DITY Move Tips that you should know

10 IMPORTANT TIPS
If you are considering a DITY move – now called a PPM – remember these tips from your fellow military spouse

How does a DITY move really looks like?

Ever wondered how does the process of a DITY move really looks like? Check out this fast-forward video I found on youtube which displays the DITY moving process of a military family. Don't forget to use the DITY move calculator for your own help!

DITY Move Calculator

DITY Move Calculator

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Here's a neat tool I found on the net which gives you an estimate about the costs and payments of your next DITY move! Read More to access the DITY Move Calculator.