Jim Absher is a Military.com benefits columnist. Service members will see their Basic Allowance for Subsistence (BAS) increase by more than 11% in the upcoming year. The 2023 rates were posted on the ...

Military households receiving the new Basic Needs Allowance aimed at reducing food insecurity may not have to pay taxes on the cash payments if a bipartisan bill makes it through Congress. The Basic ...

The 2026 BAH increase comes at the same time as a likely pay raise for service members. As of Dec. 11, the House of Representatives had approved the 3.8% increase in basic pay. The proposed pay raise ...

With President Joe Biden’s signing of the fiscal 2024 National Defense Authorization Act in December, the military got a good-sized 5.2% pay raise – the largest year-over-year pay bump since 2002.

Troops can look forward to an increase in the Basic Allowance for Subsistence.Here, soldiers from the 7th Army Noncommissioned Officer Academy and other units eat lunch at the Command Sergeant Major ...

WASHINGTON — Service members assigned to about three dozen urban areas of the U.S. will see a bump in cost-of-living allowance rates at the start of 2025, while more than 50 other locations will lose ...

The Department of Budget and Management (DBM) on Wednesday announced it has approved the release of P16.890 billion worth of ...