The bill also includes Family Separation Allowance and ensures that Reserve and National Guard members are also included.
Include Family Separation Allowance in covered military compensation so it rises with costs for military families.
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Evidence
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House-engrossed H.R. 8800 includes Sec. 603, requiring one-time and recurring annual increases to each covered special and incentive pay by the greater of CPI growth or military basic-pay growth; its definition of covered pay includes the allowance payable under 37 U.S.C. 427.
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Hamadeh announced the Combat Pay Protection Act, stating that the bill includes Family Separation Allowance among covered compensation so military families are not left behind as costs rise, and said an identical amendment was included in the FY2027 NDAA by unanimous House Armed Services Committee voice vote.
Assessments
Hamadeh materially advanced the promise in the same congressional term by introducing the Combat Pay Protection Act and securing the Family Separation Allowance indexing language in the House Armed Services Committee product and House-passed FY2027 NDAA. However, the provision had not become enacted law in the available record; the FY2027 NDAA remained pending in the Senate as of the latest status reviewed, so military families were not yet receiving the promised cost-indexed allowance. This supports partial credit rather than full delivery.