Title 37 — Pay and Allowances of the Uniformed ServicesRelease 119-73
§1014 Payment date for pay and allowances
Title 37 › Chapter CHAPTER 19— - ADMINISTRATION › § 1014
Summary
Military basic pay, housing and subsistence allowances, and other regular military pay (not travel, transportation, or separation pay) must be paid on the first day of the month after the month when the pay was earned. That rule still allows a single midmonth payment for any pay type and allows advance payments. For members in the Thrift Savings Plan, half of the monthly TSP deposit may be put into the fund at midmonth.
Full Legal Text
Title 37, §1014
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(a)Amounts of basic pay, basic allowance for housing, basic allowance for subsistence, and other payments of military compensation (other than travel and transportation allowances and separation allowances) shall be paid on the first day of the month beginning after the month during which the right to such compensation accrues.
(b)Subsection (a) does not preclude one payment in midmonth for any element of compensation and does not affect any authority to make advance payments of pay and allowances.
(c)With respect to a member of the uniformed services who has elected to participate in the Thrift Savings Plan under section 211 of this title, subsection (a) does not preclude the payment of an amount equal to one-half of the monthly deposit to the Thrift Savings Fund otherwise to be made by the member in participating in the Plan, which amount may be deposited in the Thrift Savings Fund at midmonth.
Legislative History
Notes & Related Subsidiaries
Editorial Notes
Codification Pub. L. 99–591 is a corrected version of Pub. L. 99–500.
Amendments
2008—Subsec. (c). Pub. L. 110–181 added subsec. (c). 1997—Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 105–85 substituted “housing” for “quarters”.
Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries
Effective Date
of 1997 AmendmentAmendment by Pub. L. 105–85 effective Jan. 1, 1998, see section 603(e) of Pub. L. 105–85, set out as a note under section 5561 of Title 5, Government Organization and Employees.
Effective Date
Pub. L. 99–500, § 101(c) [title IX, § 9103(4)], Oct. 18, 1986, 100 Stat. 1783–82, 1783–118, and Pub. L. 99–591, § 101(c) [title IX, § 9103(4)], Oct. 30, 1986, 100 Stat. 3341–82, 3341–118, as amended by Pub. L. 100–26, § 4(a)(2), Apr. 21, 1987, 101 Stat. 274, provided that: “Section 1014 of title 37, United States Code, as added by paragraph (1) and redesignated by section 8(b)(2) of the Defense Technical Corrections Act of 1987 [Pub. L. 100–26], and the
Amendments
made by paragraph (3) [amending section 1466 of Title 10, Armed Forces], shall take effect on September 1, 1987.”
Reference
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Citation
37 U.S.C. § 1014
Title 37 — Pay and Allowances of the Uniformed Services
Last Updated
Apr 6, 2026
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