GAO REPORT ON FAIRNESS OF MILITARY HOUSING ALLOWANCES

SEC. 602. GAO REPORT ON FAIRNESS OF MILITARY HOUSING ALLOWANCES (a) GAO Review.—The Comptroller General shall review the following: (1) The military housing allowance system as it pertains to dual-service couples and divorced members of the uniformed services. For purposes of the review, a dual-service couple is a married couple of which both spouses are members of a uniformed service serving on active duty. (2) All studies previously conducted by the Department of Defense on the military housing allowance system, including the legislative history of the existing provisions of law providing for the basic allowance for quarters and the variable housing allowance (37 U.S.C. 403 and 403a). (b) Report.—The Comptroller General shall submit to the Committees on Armed Services of the Senate and the House of Representatives a report on the review conducted under subsection (a). The report shall include recommendations for appropriate changes in legislation and regulations to promote fairness in— (1) the compensation for military housing of a dual-service couple in comparison to the compensation for military housing of a married couple of which one spouse is a member of a uniformed service serving on active duty and the other spouse is a civilian; and (2) the compensation for military housing of divorced members of the uniformed services in comparison to the compensation for military housing of other unmarried members of the uniformed services. (c) Deadline.—The report required by subsection (b) shall be submitted by March 1, 1988.