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DoD needs to improve the way it calculates troops’ BAH rates, auditors say Privatized housing at Trumbo Point, an annex of Naval Air Station Key West. (Photo by Chris Carson) A new report on Basic Allowance for Housing supports some service members’ suspicions that they may be getting the short end of the stick when it comes to how much of their rent is covered by the military, says one advocate. The report, released by the Government Accountability Office, says defense officials need to do a better job collecting and monitoring the data used to set rates for Basic Allowance for Housi...

Follow the federal guidelines and to comply with federal military law. so the governors really cannot do what it is they're doing. in fact, it's interesting that you bring up the state of texas because the benefit that's being withheld there, the b.a.h., basic allowance for housing, is a federal benefit. it has nothing to do with the state. the employees that process that benefit are federal employees, the system, the computer system software and hardware is a federal system. at most, it may reside on a piece of property that may be owned by the state. but that would be it. the rest of it is a...