FEES PAID BY RESIDENTS

SEC. 1514. FEES PAID BY RESIDENTS (a) Monthly Fees.— The Directors shall collect from each resident of the Retirement Home a monthly fee. (b) Deposit of Fees.— The Directors shall deposit fees collected under subsection (a) in the Armed Forces Retirement Home Trust Fund. (c) Fixing Fees.— (1) The Retirement Home Board shall from time to time fix the fee required by subsection (a) on the basis of the financial needs of the Retirement Home and the ability of the residents to pay. (2) The fee shall be fixed as a percentage of Federal payments made to a resident, including monthly retired or retainer pay, monthly civil service annuity, monthly compensation or pension paid to the resident by the Secretary of Veterans Affairs, and Social Security payments. Residents who do not receive such Federal payments shall be required to pay a monthly fee that is equivalent to the average monthly fee paid by residents who receive Federal payments, subject to such adjustments in the fee as the Retirement Home Board may make. The percentage shall be the same for each establishment of the Retirement Home. (d) Application of Fees to Current Residents of the Naval Home and the Soldiers’ and Airmen’s Home.— (1) Each resident of the Naval Home who becomes a resident of the Retirement Home on the effective date specified in section 1541(a) shall begin paying a monthly fee that is equal to 12.5 percent of the Federal payments made to the resident. Each year thereafter, the fee for such resident under this subsection shall be increased 2.5 percent until the percentage fixed under subsection (c) has been reached. Such percentage increase may be adjusted so that the conversion to the fee fixed under subsection (c) is accomplished under this subsection within six years after such effective date. (2) A resident of the United States Soldiers’ and Airmen’s Home who becomes a resident of the Retirement Home on such date and who received Federal payments referred to in subsection (c) that were not considered for purposes of determining the resident’s monthly fee for the United States Soldiers’ and Airmen’s Home104 STAT. 1726 shall have that fee increased by an amount that is equal to 12.5 percent of the monthly equivalent of those payments for the first year and 2.5 percent of the monthly equivalent of those payments each year thereafter until the percentage fixed pursuant to subsection (c) has been reached. (e) Application of Fees for New Residents.— A person who becomes a resident of the Retirement Home after the effective date specified in section 1541(a) shall be required to pay a monthly fee that is equal to 25 percent of Federal payments made to the resident, subject to such adjustments in the fee as may be made under subsection (c).