§1016 Pay statements: descriptions of types of pay

Summary

Require the Secretary of Defense to provide, at the same time as each service member’s pay statement, a short plain-language explanation for every pay, allowance, and deduction shown. Each explanation must say the law or rule that allows it, why it is paid, who can get it, and how a member’s eligibility can change (for example, when it can be stopped, changed, or end). Those explanations must be on a website members can access and print with their pay statement, and written so people without special knowledge of military pay, accounting, or law can understand.