Military Pay Crisis Has Secretary Of Defense Making MASSIVE Changes?! (Empty Promises?)

It's no secret that

military

pay has been out of date when it comes to inflation for the past two years, as we've seen astronomical increases and seen sailors complain endlessly on social media saying they can't pay their bills. We had the sergeant major of the Army talking about resources like food stamps for soldiers because of the issues we're facing and how this economic impact is impacting the

military

, which can impact readiness, which can impact your ability to get a clearance of security. may affect your ability to be mission-ready to fight, but it appears that those complaints and those cries have now been officially heard by senior leaders, including Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin, that's because we're now seeing a memo of the. that's addressing all the concerns that I think everyone was thinking about and finally after how many months I think we're finally on the path to

making

progress and actually taking care of military members.

This was released yesterday, September 22, the memo to senior Pentagon officials says. leadership uh on your issue taking care of our service members and their families the Department of Defense has a sacred obligation to take care of our service members and their families doing so is a national security imperative as I said our military families provide the solid foundation for our strength and we owe them all our support. This is personal for me too. I have seen firsthand how much our military family sacrifices to keep our Force strong, healthy, and ready to defend this exceptional nation in the face of challenges and frustrations to which our families show incredible resilience.

Last year we focused on ways to even better care for our service members and their families. I am proud to be

making

progress, we have made the progress we have made and we will continue to strive to make even more. I understand the extraordinary pressures that our military families' leadership, including myself, will continue to listen, learn, and lead on issues that we know are critical to the stability of our outstanding military families. This is where the time finally comes and that is to ensure the affordable basic needs that our service members and their families must have.

Being able to ensure affordable basic needs is a matter of fundamental financial security and a matter of critical individual preparedness the president's budget includes a 4.6 pay increase for service members effective January 1, 2023 to further address this problem I order the department to review the prospective basic plan for 2023 allocation for BH of housing for short tables ensure that the calculations reflect the unusually dynamic fluctuations in the housing market. Additionally, I direct automatic increases in BH for active duty surge members in the 28 military housing areas that have experienced an average of more than 20 percent spikes and rents. housing costs this year above this year's BH rates, these automatic increases will come into effect in October 2022.

We may need a standing ovation, it has been heard that the beans higher up have finally understood that the salary is not enough and literally the rent is too much. Very high, like I said before, I understand that the 4.6 pay increase is not going to match the inflation that has been achieved, but man, is this going to have a dramatic effect on the military family? He wants to fully fund our precinct grocery stores to drive prices down. at the register with the goal of achieving at least 25 savings on grocery bills compared to the local market, pay the basic needs allowance for eligible service members starting January 2023, which is a supplemental allowance for service members who qualify based on their gross household income.

I have no idea what this actual assignment would be. I'm not sure I've heard of this in all my years of being in the military, so in general, you know I'm wondering if I want more details on this. Maybe someone will get paid. their action, the actual base salary, perhaps in their housing allowance, does not meet the basic requirements for their families or a way that they can know, increase it. I'm not sure, but that's what it sounds like it might be if I'm speculating to facilitate moves service members and families must move frequently and these moves often come with costs that can strain budgets and cause financial uncertainty last year.

I ordered the extension of temporary housing expense beyond 10 days for search members and families seeking housing and Aries experiencing housing shortages to compound the process of permanent damage of status or permanent change of season moves. I direct the department to permanently increase standard maximum coverage from 10 days to 14 days for Economist moves and allow up to 60 days of information service members in a specific military housing area with a housing shortage, this will provide service members with service and families significantly more flexibility in securing housing during a PCS move, this will go into effect in October 2022. This is a little late for me.

I wish I had this because Coming back from Japan to the US, I only had 10 days to find a place to live and if you know what, there's a waiting list everywhere, there's a competition where someone else already got it when you have the opportunity to do it and have two. Weeks to find a place is much better than 10 days. My only complaint about this financial issue is that they are making all military members use their government travel card during their PCS to their new duty stations, the repayment period of which we all know. because that has been overdue for a long time and there are people who now have to pay that expense within 30 days, so I will say that I generally agree with what is happening here, but I wish we could adjust some things as they want. to increase the moving allowance for E1 through E6 service members to further help offset personal moving expenses for PCs.

Payments for all service members will now be paid automatically one month prior to your transfer date to avoid out-of-pocket costs. Explain the senses. This will take effect in October. 2022. Can we get a round of applause for that standing ovation? The children are finally being cared for. E6 and Below baby and it's before they move. We are no longer reactionary, it means we are actually doing something and being proactive. Oh my god, I could keep going. over my grave at the end of this, please continue with permissions for Military One Source, the Department's information portal for military families through improvements to online housing and moving tools, these online resources should be clear, intuitive and easy to navigate, omg that program sucks.

I'm glad they probably paid someone too much to fix it, but let's continue to strengthen our support for families even more. We have made significant progress in this area, but I remain determined to do much more. They expanded the parental leave policy to cover non-attributable leave. Following the birth or adoption of a child, for both active duty and eligible Reserve component members, the department has introduced the new Parent Support Program to help them through the happy but often challenging transition to parenthood and has updated policies to reimburse nursing service members for shipping or breast milk when temporary not required Travel on duty for more than three days up to 24 months after giving birth man it's almost like we care We must continue to strive to provide even more affordable child care options for military families.

Military Child Development Centers have expanded their hours to provide additional coverage for our service members to account for the varied schedules of military service. The department has reached out to additional high-quality community-based child care providers who have agreed to serve military families using our free assistance program again. A round of applause, my God, they saved the military, it's a 24 hour job and we're finally in the year 2022, as you would have sworn we were giving birth or having children, maybe just up until this moment a year ago, but God, We're seeing. progress, ladies and gentlemen, the quality of life has increased, we are seeing a work-life balance that we have never seen before, but with the child care shortage affecting the entire country, you must do more to help our service members and military children, yes to Further support our military families with children I direct the department to make significant investments in the child development program, facilities and infrastructure to further expand our ability to provide quality child care.

Standardize a minimum discount of 50 employees for the first child of our CDP drug. care workers to help attract more talented staff and increase capacity, this will go into effect in October 2022 and may be able to hire some military spouses who will work at the CDC and not feel like they are doing everything they can while doing it. do. We are working just to put your children in the same place where they work. Oh my gosh, this is, this is getting good guys, we're on the path to maybe a happy ending, don't take it that way, but you know it means it says improve access to child care programs and resources, like child care military in your neighborhood, and expanding the free home child care assistance pilot program to additional states to provide more options for military families, now says to expand spousal employment.

I love spouses are right says military spouses provide a solid foundation upon which their loved ones in uniform stand yes and our communities and our nation depend on their resilience we owe them our energetic and unwavering support yes girl says expand further employment opportunities for military spouses I lead department two one accelerate the development of seven additional interstate occupational licensing compacts with organizations representing multiple professions. This will ease the burden on spouses who must go through the often challenging and frustrating process of transferring their convictions or professional licensing credentials with each PCS move, yes. It sucks to have to move your stuff from one state to another or whatever, like I thought the United States was, but when it comes to licensing because of the laws of each state, you see a lot of this where they end up not being able to transfer. uh increase the use of non-competitive direct hiring authorities for military spouses in the department of

defense

and further expand remote work and telework options to help military spouses develop portable careers, this means they could keep Timmy at home, they could be able to work. from home and that means that these people are going to earn a lot more money.

I agree with them, I agree with people who are productive and want to work, who are not going to be backed into a pigeon hole and not be able to do anything but be a mother and can actually find some kind of success by being at home and moving forward with what we've seen as I would say the big push to this type of online remote work environment, and I think that's even where the military ourselves could be adopting here very soon this is promising and these

changes

are only happening from about a week into this happening for most of these things and then the other things that were happening at the beginning of next year are only like three months away so this is promising and if not delivery, you will probably see it, you will know it, you will know it because this is very close to when these

changes

should take place and I must comment that I do not always have the opportunity to come. but when we have our children in lesson two and they really take them seriously and listen to them, this has to be taken into account.

I know I can be critical. I know I can analyze, but I also have to say that this is progress and I will do it. Take any progress we make and I look forward to seeing if we can make more changes coming soon and if you can make any changes on top of this, let me know in the comments what you think it would be because this is kind of a disconcerting change, you know, that I was even expecting , so I'd love to hear from you guys, like this topic or others you want me to cover, hit me up on Instagram Snapchat Twitter Tick Tock or down in the comments below.

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