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be proofread.  108 STAT. 2780 PUBLIC LAW 103-337—OCT. 5, 1994
establish the threshold percentage, except that the threshold
percentage may not be less than 8 percent. The administering
Secretaries shall prescribe a higher threshold percentage to be
applied for a fiscal year when it is necessary to do so in order
to ensure that the total amount of the pa3Tnents of the cost-of-
living allowance made to members of the uniformed services under
this section for such fiscal year does not exceed the total
amount available to all uniformed services for that fiscal year
for paying such allowance. "(d) AMOUNT OF ALLOWANCE. —The cost-
of-living allowance that may be paid to a member for a high cost
area for a fiscal year shall be the amount that is equal to the
product of— "(1) the amount of the average spendable income
determined applicable for the regular military compensation
level of such me