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Modifications to cost-of-living allowance in the continental United States for members of the Army, Navy, Air Force, Marine Corps, and Space Force

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

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Members of the Army, Navy, Air Force, Marine Corps, and Space Force may receive cost-of-living allowances on a discretionary basis rather than as a guaranteed payment. The threshold for receiving this allowance is generally set at three percent, but the military departments can raise this threshold to keep total payments within available funding. Additionally, senior officers such as generals and admirals can be excluded from eligibility for this allowance.

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(1)

by redesignating subsection (i) as subsection (j); and

(2)

by inserting after subsection (h) the following new subsection:

(i) Special rule for members of the Army, Navy, Air Force, Marine Corps, and Space Force

This section shall be applied for members of the Army, Navy, Air Force, Marine Corps, and Space Force as follows:

(1)

Subsection (a) shall be applied by substituting shall pay for may pay .

(2)

Subsection (c) shall be applied by substituting for the second and third sentences the following: The threshold percentage shall be three percent, except that the administering Secretaries may prescribe a higher threshold percentage to be applied for a fiscal year when it is necessary to do so in order to ensure that the total amount of the payments of the cost-of-living allowance made to members of the uniformed services under this section for such fiscal year does not exceed the total amount available to all uniformed services for that fiscal year for paying such allowance.

(3)

The Secretary concerned may exclude general officers (as defined in section 101(b) of title 10) and flag officers (as defined in such section) from members who are eligible to receive a cost-of-living allowance under this section.