Budget asks for $245.3 million increase to Income Eligibility Threshold for Basic Needs Allowance. Image: rzstudio/Shutterstock.com
By: FEDweek StaffService members would receive a 4.5-percent raise in basic pay, under $849.8 billion defense-spending request for 2025 that the Biden administration submitted to Congress March 11.
Personnel-related provisions call for an increase in the number of child development centers, as well as employees to staff these facilities. Housing and subsistence allowances would also increase.
Other highlights:
• $245.3 million to increase the Income Eligibility Threshold for Basic Needs Allowance, for service members and their families who would qualify.
• More than $120 million to fund commissaries, enabling service members to save more than 25 percent on groceries than they would pay at civilian supermarkets.
• $2 billion for family housing.
• $1.1 billion for unaccompanied housing and barracks construction.
• $547 million to address and prevent suicides.
• $1.2 billion to prevent sexual assaults and other harmful behaviors.
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