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Basic needs allowance: exclusion of basic allowance for housing from the calculation of gross household income of an eligible member of the Armed Forces

Division A · Title VI: MILITARY COMPENSATION AND OTHER BENEFITS · Subtitle B: Allowances

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The section changes the rules so that the basic allowance for housing is not counted as part of the total household income for certain eligible members of the Armed Forces when determining their basic needs allowance. This means housing payments will be excluded from income calculations for these members.

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Section Text · Sec. 611.
(1)

by striking in and all that follows through portion of ; and

(2)

by striking that the Secretary concerned elects to exclude and inserting paid to such member .