The House defense bill would extend SSIA for one year at $310 per month. The Senate bill would make SSIA permanent at $310 per month.
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1 In this issue: Congress Offers Limited Relief for Military Survivors The unfair deduction of VA Dependency Indemnity Compensation (DIC) from military Survivor Benefit Plan (SBP) annuities affects around 63,000 survivors. Congress recognized the unfairness of the SBP-DIC offset and created the Special Survivor Indemnity Allowance (SSIA) in 2007 to begin phasing out the offset. The law authorizing SSIA (currently $270 monthly, rising to $310 for FY17) is set to expire in October Both the Senate and House versions of the FY 2017 defense bill contain provisions extending SSIA, however, they come up short in addressing the repeal of the offset in a comprehensive way. The House defense bill would extend SSIA for one year at $310 per month. The Senate bill would make SSIA permanent at $310 per month. MOAA is grateful to both chambers for not letting SSIA expire. But we re very disappointed neither bill would continue the incremental increases intended to phase out the SBP-DIC offset over time. MOAA is not giving up on making more progress this year. We re working with Military Coalition partners to lobby top congressional leaders to identify additional mandatory spending offsets to help the Armed Services Committees make the SSIA upgrades we know they would like to do. Please send your legislators a MOAA-suggested message to push senior Republican and Democratic leaders in both chambers to find the necessary funding for a multi-year schedule of SSIA increases for long-suffering SBP-DIC widows. Congress Divided The House and Senate have both passed their versions of the FY17 Defense Authorization Bill, and they disagree on many important issues, including TRICARE fee hikes, housing allowance cuts, the military pay raise, and force levels. Health Care In the wake of last year s retirement reform, Armed Services Committee leaders are now focused on overhauling the military health care system. The Senate would apply new and higher fees to current beneficiaries. The House would grandfather currently serving and retired members and families against the large fee hikes. Housing Allowances The Senate bill would cap housing allowances at current BAH rates or the servicemember s actual housing cost, whichever is less, beginning with the first PCS after Jan. 1, That could have a big effect on many military homeowners. The Senate bill also would dramatically cut housing allowances for dual-military couples and other military sharers of housing by many thousands of dollars a year.
2 The House bill does not make any changes to housing allowances. Pay Raise The House bill provides servicemembers the full pay raise allowed by law the same 2.1 percent pay raise experienced by the average American (as measured by the Employment Cost Index). The Senate bill accepted the administration's proposal to cap the 2017 pay raise at 1.6 percent which would be the fourth consecutive pay raise cutback. Force Levels The House bill increases force levels above the DoD budget request by 20,000 for the Army; 15,000 for Army National Guard; 10,000 for Army Reserve; 4,000 for the Air Force; and 3,000 for the Marine Corps, but reduces Navy forces by 4,500. The Senate bill accepted all of the administration s proposals to cut force levels, including reducing the Army to 450,000, down from a wartime peak of 570,000. See MOAA s side-by-side comparison of key House and Senate differences on these issues and more. What s Next Lawmakers and their staffs already have had initial meetings to start resolving differences between the two bills. Senate Armed Services Committee chair John McCain (R-Ariz.) has said he wants to complete action on the defense bill as quickly as possible. Your grassroots input is needed to help influence the process. June As I See It One of the most underreported but most significant changes in the Senate-passed version of the FY 2017 Defense Authorization Act (S. 2943) is the proposal to reform military housing allowances. In justifying the proposal, Senate Armed Services Committee leaders called the current basic allowance for housing (BAH) system bloated and ripe for abuse. This took MOAA by surprise, as the BAH system is the result of years of review, and the recent Military Compensation and Retirement Modernization Commission recommended keeping it as is. It seems the committee s perspective on abuse focuses on situations where multiple servicemembers share housing costs, including married dual-military couples and other cohabitation or roommate arrangements. The committee s view is the BAH amount shouldn t exceed the amount each individual servicemember actually spends on housing (mainly rent and utilities), and sharing housing while drawing the full BAH is abusing the system. The committee s solution is to require dividing each servicemember s BAH rate by the number of servicemembers occupying the housing. For a married couple, both allowances would be halved. For four roommates of different grades, each would receive one-fourth of the grade-applicable BAH rate. MOAA doesn t agree with defining cohabitation as allowance abuse, and neither does DoD.
3 DoD s March 2016 report to Congress on this topic reiterated the long-held Pentagon stance that BAH is an essential element of Regular Military Compensation (RMC), which is the military equivalent of a civilian salary. While some service members qualify for bonuses and special programs and some don t, members RMC is standardized based on pay grade, length of service, and dependency status, the report stated. The Department believes it would be inappropriate to limit a member s compensation by tying that compensation to actual expenses incurred for members stationed in the United States. When locality-based housing allowances first began in the 1980s, servicemembers did have to provide proof of their housing costs, and allowances were adjusted accordingly. But DoD stopped that practice, in part because of the paperwork nightmare and in part because the reported costs couldn t be independently validated but mostly in recognition of the above-stated belief it s the servicemember s business how he or she spends the allowance set for that location. The Senate proposal to change that raises a number of important issues and would cut some servicemembers compensation so dramatically as to make all other pay changes pale in comparison. For two majors married to each other stationed at Fort Bliss, Texas, the proposal would cut the couple s combined housing allowance by more than $17,000 a year. If they have one or more children, the loss would increase to almost $19,000. For higher-cost locations, the loss would be proportionally greater. As Maj. (and MOAA member) Jessica Grassetti, USA, wrote us, The insinuation that [she and her military spouse] are somehow a two for one deal for the nation and that this should allow the government to discount our individually earned compensation is ridiculous. The proposed legislation s message is, in effect, that my service is worth less than my unmarried counterpart s of the same rank, simply because I happen to be married to another servicemember. If the servicemembers are of different grades, a new issue arises. An E-8 married to an E-5 with one child at Fort Bliss would lose a combined $15,000 a year. Further, their combined monthly BAH under this system would be $2,400 a year less than the rate payable to an E-8 with a civilian spouse. The system would particularly penalize junior servicemembers who often room together to save money. Do we really want to penalize efforts to become more financially independent? Let s keep in mind, Congress just changed the military retirement system for new service entrants in a way that will depend far more on servicemembers own savings. Young troops don t make that much, and one way they can save for retirement is to share housing. The combination of the new retirement system and the Senate-proposed BAH system would require young troops to save more and then penalize them for trying to do that. Now let s consider homeowners. The BAH system is based on locality rental costs and doesn t account for homeownership. But homeowners still would have to report their actual housing costs. Servicemembers who made large down payments or who kept a home from a previous assignment at the same locality would be penalized for having lower mortgage payments. If a senior servicemember has managed to pay off a 15-year mortgage on a home, the new plan apparently would cut his or her BAH to a utilities-only amount. Is paying off a home really the kind of behavior we want to discourage? MOAA thinks not. And neither do DoD and service leaders. It s bad enough DoD and Congress already are three years into a five-year plan to cut all BAH rates by 5 percent, on top of a fourth consecutive year of capping the military pay raise below private-sector pay growth.
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