Service members would receive a 1.3-percent pay raise next Jan. 1, under the Obama administration’s proposed 2016 defense-spending bill. Limited pay raises would continue through 2020, with increases of 1.3 percent in 2017, 1.5 percent in 2018 and 2019, and 1.8 percent in 2020. Additionally, the White House wants to cap the basic allowance for housing (BAH) so that service members would pay five percent of their off-base housing costs out of pocket. The bill also includes a plan to reduce the subsidy to the commissary system. The change would give the Defense Commissary Agency (DeCA) the flexibility to “operate the commissary system more like a business,” according to the Pentagon. Shoppers would notice higher prices on certain goods. The additional revenue from these higher prices would allow the commissary system to maintain lower prices on market basket goods that junior families need. If adopted this year, the change would not take effect until 2017.