[Federal Register Volume 85, Number 16 (Friday, January 24, 2020)]
[Notices]
[Pages 4296-4297]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2020-01202]


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DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE

Office of the Secretary


Publication of Housing Price Inflation Adjustment

AGENCY: Office of the Under Secretary (Personnel and Readiness), 
Department of Defense (DoD).

ACTION: Notice of housing price inflation adjustment.

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SUMMARY: The Department of Defense is announcing the 2019 rent 
threshold under the Servicemembers Civil Relief Act. Applying the 
inflation adjustment for 2019, the maximum monthly rental amount as of 
January 1, 2020, will be $3,991.90.

DATES: These housing price inflation adjustments are effective January 
1, 2020.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Lt Col Ryan Hendricks, Office of the 
Under Secretary of Defense for Personnel and Readiness, (703) 571-9301.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The Servicemembers Civil Relief Act, as 
codified at 50 U.S.C. App. 3951, prohibits a landlord from evicting a 
Service member (or the Service member's family) from a residence during 
a period of military service, except by court order. The law as 
originally passed by Congress applied to dwellings with monthly rents 
of $2,400 or less. The law requires the DoD to adjust this amount 
annually to reflect inflation and to publish the new amount in the 
Federal Register. Applying the

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inflation adjustment for 2019, the maximum monthly rental amount for 50 
U.S.C. App. 3951(a)(1)(A)(ii) as of January 1, 2020, will be $3,991.90.

    Dated: January 21, 2020.
Aaron T. Siegel,
Alternate OSD Federal Register Liaison Officer, Department of Defense.
[FR Doc. 2020-01202 Filed 1-23-20; 8:45 am]
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