Download or read book Cost benefit Analysis of Providing a Special Subsistence Allowance to Military Personnel who Qualify for Food Stamps written by Curtis A. Becker and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recent reports cite that military Food Stamp Program beneficiaries may range from 6,400 to 20,000. The need for food stamps has been attributed to several factors, one of which is the perceived military "pay gap". Although, significant strides have been made in recent years to improve quality of life for our service men and women and their families, the military pay system tends to lag behind the civilian employment cost growth index. Despite the strong economy that we currently enjoy, many of our service personnel are struggling to make ends meet. The analysis compared the costs associated with providing eligible personnel with food stamps to the cost of providing a Special Subsistence Allowance in lieu of food stamps. On the surface, the Federal Government may realize approximately $7,862,400 savings if the additional subsistence is set at $180 per beneficiary per month, as posed in Senate legislation. Despite such savings, the Department of Defense is constrained by its compensation system, which uses promotion and pay increases to encourage advancement and longevity as a basis for compensation. The Special Subsistence Allowance in lieu of food stamps could also have devastating financial effects for some while providing a cash bonus for others.
Download or read book Cost Benefit Analysis of Providing a Special Subsistence Allowance to Military Pesonnel Who Qualify for Food Stamps written by and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 95 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recent reports cite that military Food Stamp Program beneficiaries may range from 6,400 to 20,000. The need for food stamps has been attributed to several factors, one of which is the perceived military "pay gap". Although, significant strides have been made in recent years to improve quality of life for our service men and women and their families, the military pay system tends to lag behind the civilian employment cost growth index. Despite the strong economy that we currently enjoy, many of our service personnel are struggling to make ends meet. The analysis compared the costs associated with providing eligible personnel with food stamps to the cost of providing a Special Subsistence Allowance in lieu of food stamps. On the surface, the Federal Government may realize approximately $7,862,400 savings if the additional subsistence is set at $180 per beneficiary per month, as posed in Senate legislation. Despite such savings, the Department of Defense is constrained by its compensation system, which uses promotion and pay increases to encourage advancement and longevity as a basis for compensation. The Special Subsistence Allowance in lieu of food stamps could also have devastating financial effects for some while providing a cash bonus for others.
Download or read book Cost Benefit Analysis of Providing a Special Subsistence Allowance to Military Pesonnel Who Qualify for Food Stamps written by Curtis A Becker (Jr) and published by . This book was released on 2000-06 with total page 95 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recent reports cite that military Food Stamp Program beneficiaries may range from 6,400 to 20,000. The need for food stamps has been attributed to several factors, one of which is the perceived military "pay gap". Although, significant strides have been made in recent years to improve quality of life for our service men and women and their families, the military pay system tends to lag behind the civilian employment cost growth index. Despite the strong economy that we currently enjoy, many of our service personnel are struggling to make ends meet. The analysis compared the costs associated with providing eligible personnel with food stamps to the cost of providing a Special Subsistence Allowance in lieu of food stamps. On the surface, the Federal Government may realize approximately $7,862,400 savings if the additional subsistence is set at $180 per beneficiary per month, as posed in Senate legislation. Despite such savings, the Department of Defense is constrained by its compensation system, which uses promotion and pay increases to encourage advancement and longevity as a basis for compensation. The Special Subsistence Allowance in lieu of food stamps could also have devastating financial effects for some while providing a cash bonus for others.
Download or read book Food Insecurity Among Members of the Armed Forces and Their Dependents written by Beth J. Asch and published by Rand Corporation. This book was released on 2023-01-31 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2020 directed the Secretary of Defense to report on food insecurity among service members and their dependents. RAND researchers examined this directive and recommended other topics for analysis.
Download or read book Returning Home from Iraq and Afghanistan written by Institute of Medicine and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2010-03-31 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nearly 1.9 million U.S. troops have been deployed to Afghanistan and Iraq since October 2001. Many service members and veterans face serious challenges in readjusting to normal life after returning home. This initial book presents findings on the most critical challenges, and lays out the blueprint for the second phase of the study to determine how best to meet the needs of returning troops and their families.
Download or read book CBO s Analysis of the President s Fiscal Year 2000 Budget written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Budget and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Costs of Military Pay and Benefits in the Defense Budget written by CBo and published by . This book was released on 2012-12-03 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Compensation of military personnel takes up asubstantial portion of the nation's defense budget. In its fiscal year 2013 budget request, for example, the Department of Defense (DoD) requested about $150 billion to fund the pay and benefits of current and retired members of the armed services. As in most recent years, thatamount was more than one-quarter of DoD's total base budget request (the request for all funding other than for military operations in Iraq and Afghanistan and for related activities-often called overseas contingency operations).The compensation request involved four majorareas:- Current cash compensation for service members, consisting of basic pay, food and housing allowances, bonuses, and various types of special pay;- Accrual payments that account for the future cash compensation of current service members in the form of pensions for those who will retire from the military (generally after at least 20 years of service);- Accrual payments that account for the future costs of health care for current service members (under a program called TRICARE for Life) who will retire from the military and also become eligible forMedicare (generally at age 65); and- Funding for current spending under the militaryhealth care program (known as TRICARE), excluding the costs of caring for current military retirees who also are eligible for Medicare (the latter costs are covered by the accrual payments made in earlier years, just described).In all, about 1.4 million active-duty military personnel and about 1.1 million members of the reserves and National Guard receive current cash compensation, the largest part of compensation in DoD's budget. Cash compensation for members of the reserves and National Guard goes mainly to the 840,000 members of the Selected Reserve-service members who are assigned to and train regularly with standing units. Second in totalcost to current cash compensation, military health benefits are available to nearly 10 million people: active-duty military personnel and their eligible family members, retired military personnel and their eligible family members, survivors of service members who died while on active duty, and certain members of the reserves and National Guard.This report does not consider the costs of the benefits provided by the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA)- about $130 billion in that department's 2013 budget request. Those benefits include health care for veteranswith service-connected disabilities and for veterans who meet certain other eligibility criteria. Other VA benefits include monthly cash payments that compensate for service-connected disabilities and GI Bill benefits that reimburse some of the costs of higher education.This report also does not consider the costs of pay and benefits for DoD's roughly 790,000 full-time-equivalent civilian employees, other than for the 60,000 who are assigned to the military health care system and whose compensation contributes to the estimate of the total cost of delivering military health care.
Download or read book Defense Health Care written by and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on 1993 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In October 1989 the Department of Defense introduced its Corporate Information Management (CIM) initiative to reengineer its business practices and make better use of information technology. In May 1990, a Medical Functional Group was established within the Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Health Affairs to institutionalize the CIM process within the Military Health Services System. This letter addresses our review of CIN's implementation in military health services--one of the eight functional areas selected for initial CIM implementation. At a time when health care costs are rising dramatically, CIM offers opportunities to reduce not only health care information technology expenses but, more important, the overall costs of providing care.
Download or read book Army written by and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 1126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Food Stamp Program and Commodity Distribution written by United States. Congress. Senate. Agriculture and Forestry Committee and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 494 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Congressional Record written by United States. Congress and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Congressional Record is the official record of the proceedings and debates of the United States Congress. It is published daily when Congress is in session. The Congressional Record began publication in 1873. Debates for sessions prior to 1873 are recorded in The Debates and Proceedings in the Congress of the United States (1789-1824), the Register of Debates in Congress (1824-1837), and the Congressional Globe (1833-1873)
Download or read book Department of Defense Appropriations for Fiscal Year 2000 written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on Defense and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 844 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Food Stamp Program and Commodity Distribution written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Agriculture and Forestry and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 478 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Strengthening the Military Family Readiness System for a Changing American Society written by National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2019-10-25 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The U.S. military has been continuously engaged in foreign conflicts for over two decades. The strains that these deployments, the associated increases in operational tempo, and the general challenges of military life affect not only service members but also the people who depend on them and who support them as they support the nation â€" their families. Family members provide support to service members while they serve or when they have difficulties; family problems can interfere with the ability of service members to deploy or remain in theater; and family members are central influences on whether members continue to serve. In addition, rising family diversity and complexity will likely increase the difficulty of creating military policies, programs and practices that adequately support families in the performance of military duties. Strengthening the Military Family Readiness System for a Changing American Society examines the challenges and opportunities facing military families and what is known about effective strategies for supporting and protecting military children and families, as well as lessons to be learned from these experiences. This report offers recommendations regarding what is needed to strengthen the support system for military families.
Download or read book Department of Defense Authorization for Appropriations for Fiscal Year 2001 and the Future Years Defense Program written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Armed Services and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 498 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Social Security Bulletin written by and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 510 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Congressional Record Index written by and published by . This book was released on 1967 with total page 2052 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes history of bills and resolutions.
