New Tricare contracts aim to improve access to health care, clinical quality and patient safety, as well as increase military readiness.
Bringing back 100% funding for BAH would have a big impact on troops, the military's senior enlisted advisers told lawmakers.
Lawmakers are weighing possible changes to military compensation systems as a way to improve families' quality of life.
Despite Congress authorizing the increase, the Pentagon is treating it as optional amid an ongoing compensation study.
About 1 million military family members, retirees and others now benefit from the change.
House Republicans are already looking at ways to put more money into the wallets of lower-ranking service members.
Troops forced to serve apart from their dependents will now get up to $400 a month in extra financial help.
President Joe Biden is expected to sign the annual defense authorization bill into law later this month.
Defense and veterans hearings on Capitol Hill for the week of Dec. 11, 2023.
Annual bonus pay programs aim to keep airmen around to blunt the effects of a pilot shortage that has lasted decades.
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