### Question
Can you define what uniformed services cost of living means?


### Answer
**Uniformed services cost of living** is defined as the following in *37 U.S.C. § 403b*:

> the price index selected as described in paragraph (2) and adjusted as the Secretary of Defense, in consultation with the other administering Secretaries, considers appropriate to reflect variations between expenses of members of the uniformed services (as offset by the basic allowance for subsistence) and the corresponding expenses of persons not members of the uniformed services with regard to the following:


(A) Nonhousing costs (including costs of transportation, goods, and services, taking into consideration savings attributable to use of such military facilities as commissary stores and exchange stores)

#### Citation:
  - *37 U.S.C. § 403b*
  - Heading: **CHAPTER 7-ALLOWANCES OTHER THAN TRAVEL AND TRANSPORTATION ALLOWANCES**

