Military Housing Rates Boosted 3.5 Percent

Week of December 25, 2006

Servicemembers will receive an average 3.5 percent boost in their basic allowance for housing compensation benefit in 2007, according to Defense Department officials. The planned BAH increase starting Jan. 1 works out to about $300 million more than what was paid in 2006. For servicemembers with family members, average increases in the BAH are approximately $44 per month. For example, a typical specialist/corporal (E-4) will receive about $34 more in BAH than in 2006, while a master sergeant/first sergeant (E-8) will receive about $42 more than this year. The BAH rate system has built-in protections to ensure that an individual servicemember in a given location will not see his or her BAH rate decrease.

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