President Barack Obama signed a 3.4 percent pay raise for service members into law Monday, making 2010 one of a handful of recent years where civil servants and members of the military won’t receive the same raises.
A spending omnibus signed recently by Obama gives federal employees a 2 percent raise. Obama said earlier this year that the economy made giving civilian employees the same raises as the military prohibitive. Unions have pledged to return pay parity in 2011.
The military raise was included in the fiscal 2010 Defense appropriations bill, HR 3326.
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I do not mind that military personnel get a raise. But, I take issue with the fact that federal employees get a raise and federal retirees and social security recipients will not get a raise in 2010.