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Title VI: MILITARY COMPENSATION AND OTHER BENEFITS

Sec. 611 — Basic needs allowance: exclusion of basic allowance for housing from the calculation of gross household income of an eligible member of the Armed Forces

TL;DR

Basic needs allowance: exclusion of basic allowance for housing from the calculation of gross household income of an eligible member of the Armed Forces — amends 37 U.S.C. § 402b(k)(1)(B).

Statutory text

Section 402b

(k)

(1) (B) of title 37, United States Code, is amended—(1)by striking in and all that follows through portion of; and(2)by striking that the Secretary concerned elects to exclude and inserting paid to such member.