Posted on Feb 18, 2016
Pentagon budget reveals next pay raise, military retirement changes
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The Pentagon on Tuesday will unveil a $583 billion budget request for 2017 that seeks a modest pay raise for service members, new adjustments to the future military retirement system and familiar — if unpopular — changes to the military health care system, according Defense Department documents slated for official release Tuesday afternoon.
The budget request for fiscal year 2017, which begins Oct. 1, also outlines incremental reductions for the global active-duty force as well as deployment of more than 6,000 troops to Afghanistan and about 3,550 troops to Iraq.
The request for a 1.6 percent pay raise would fall below the official uptick in civilian-sector wages, marking the fourth consecutive year that the Defense Department has sought to cut long-term costs by curtailing the growth in basic pay.
The 1.6 percent raise in basic pay, if approved by Congress, would take effect in January 2017. It falls a half percentage point below the default raise of 2.1 percent, which is pegged to the recent Employment Cost Index, a government metric that tracks the rise in private-sector pay.
The 1.6 percent raise penciled in for next year is higher than the 1.3 percent bump that troops received this year.
The budget request for fiscal year 2017, which begins Oct. 1, also outlines incremental reductions for the global active-duty force as well as deployment of more than 6,000 troops to Afghanistan and about 3,550 troops to Iraq.
The request for a 1.6 percent pay raise would fall below the official uptick in civilian-sector wages, marking the fourth consecutive year that the Defense Department has sought to cut long-term costs by curtailing the growth in basic pay.
The 1.6 percent raise in basic pay, if approved by Congress, would take effect in January 2017. It falls a half percentage point below the default raise of 2.1 percent, which is pegged to the recent Employment Cost Index, a government metric that tracks the rise in private-sector pay.
The 1.6 percent raise penciled in for next year is higher than the 1.3 percent bump that troops received this year.
Pentagon budget reveals next pay raise, military retirement changes
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MSgt John McGowan
Major. I feel disgusted and the pain. When i came in free health care was promised to us. Last year it was done was 1956.
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Thanks SFC Joe S. Davis Jr., MSM, DSL for providing the Pentagon budget overview which reveals next pay raise and military retirement changes. I certainly hope and pray that our military leaders have wisdom and as well as Congress and the next POTUS.
The penciled in 1.6% raise in basic pay is a slight improvement above the 1.3% most recent increase. I hope that the pay raises will once again resemble the catch-up to civilian raises we went through during the Reagan presidency.
I hope we don't trumpet our intentions to the world about what we intend to do in Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria and North Africa and other unnamed places.
The penciled in 1.6% raise in basic pay is a slight improvement above the 1.3% most recent increase. I hope that the pay raises will once again resemble the catch-up to civilian raises we went through during the Reagan presidency.
I hope we don't trumpet our intentions to the world about what we intend to do in Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria and North Africa and other unnamed places.
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