Supercharging Military Pay Raises Because of Inflation Being Weighed in Congress – By Rebecca Kheel (Military.com) / June 9, 2022
With spiking prices on gas, groceries and other goods squeezing people across the country, lawmakers are debating whether to boost what would already be the biggest military pay raise in two decades.
A House subcommittee this week fired an opening salvo in the upcoming congressional debate over the pay raise, proposing troops get a 4.6% bump in pay next year in its draft portion of the annual defense policy bill.
That rate matches what the Biden administration proposed in its fiscal year 2023 budget request and would be the biggest raise since 2003.
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