McG
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Having a cost of living allowance is not unique to military pers - it exists for all the public service as well. Scrapping military PLD while leaving the equivalent system in the PS would be horribly bad optics for any governemt. While the TB may have some secret plan to scrap this pay for everyone, there is no evidence that I have seen to support such a claim. In fact, all evidence raised in the article can be attributed to the non-stable nature of PLD as a mechanism to compensate for high (and variable year-to-year) geographic costs of living.
The choice to use the NCR as the benchmark location a few years ago would have been a cost saving effort - the largest group of federal public servants is in the NCR so using that location as benchmark significantly reduced the number of people (military & PS) recieving this money.
The warnings not to plan on PLD for major financial decisions has been around as long as PLD has been around. This is not a forshadowing of a plan to eliminate PLD, it is a recognition that PLD has never been a stable source of income. Any given location (except the NCR) may see PLD drop or rise from year to year, and PLD can be taken away with a posting message.
The choice to use the NCR as the benchmark location a few years ago would have been a cost saving effort - the largest group of federal public servants is in the NCR so using that location as benchmark significantly reduced the number of people (military & PS) recieving this money.
The warnings not to plan on PLD for major financial decisions has been around as long as PLD has been around. This is not a forshadowing of a plan to eliminate PLD, it is a recognition that PLD has never been a stable source of income. Any given location (except the NCR) may see PLD drop or rise from year to year, and PLD can be taken away with a posting message.