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Dec 15, 2021 · Immediate Release. DoD Releases 2022 Basic Allowance for Housing Rates. Dec. 15, 2021 |. The Department of Defense has released the 2022 Basic Allowance for Housing (BAH) rates. BAH rates...
Sep 22, 2022 · As part of Secretary Austin’s commitment to take care of our people, and to ensure our Service members and families are able to secure affordable basic needs (including housing), the Department of Defense (DoD) has authorized temporary increases to 2022 Basic Allowance for Housing (BAH) rates for 28 military housing areas (MHAs) across the Unite...
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Sep 22, 2022 · The BAH rate increases are effective as of October 1, 2022 and will continue through December 31, 2022. 2023 BAH rates will replace these automatically increased rates on January 1, 2023. Will I be ‘rate-protected’ when the automatic BAH increases expire?
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Last year service members had to apply for the increased BAH allowance and prove that they have incurred higher costs due to increasing housing prices. DOD said it will automatically apply this year’s BAH increase to eligible troops’ paychecks, beginning in October.
BAH is an untaxed allowance to cover housing costsfor service members who live in communities surrounding military bases. But, the stipend hasn’t been sufficient to offset costs in some areas since the Covid-19 pandemic tipped the housing market in favor of sellers and landlords. Loosened restrictions on travel and PCS moves in 2021 created an infl...
DOD said its decision comes after five months of housing data collection in 300 military housing areas across the country. Every year DOD evaluates each of these housing areas separately, as there are distinct rental market conditions in each location, according to DOD spokesman Charlie Dietz. Within each housing area, DOD consideres prices for apa...
Like last year’s temporary BAH hike, 2022’s increased rates will expire when 2023 BAH rates take effect on Jan. 1, 2023. BAH rates are on track to increase by 12.1% according to a Department of Defense release on Dec. 14, 2022. The raise is significantly larger than the original estimate of 4.2% proposed in an early draft of 2023’s defense budget. ...
Here are the increased 2022 BAH rates for each military housing area, based on rates for an E-5 with dependents.
Dec 22, 2021 · Eight military housing areas that didn’t get the temporary bump in BAH in October got an increase of 10 percent or greater for 2022: Kodiak Island, Alaska, 10.9% Davis-Monthan AFB, Ariz.,...
Dec 15, 2021 · The Defense Department estimates that it will pay $25.6 billion in BAH to one million service members, an increase of $2.6 billion from 2021. The 5.1% average increase is the largest in...
Basic Allowance for Housing Rate Lookup. Use the forms below to find BAH rates by ZIP code, supplemental rate information, or to download annual BAH rate data for all locations and all pay grades.
