---
kind: "section"
citation: "37 U.S.C. § 1015"
title: "37"
title_heading: "Pay and Allowances of the Uniformed Services"
number: "1015"
heading: "Recordation of installment payment obligations for incentive pays and similar benefits"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/37/1015"
units:
  - "Chapter 19 — Administration"
---

# §1015. Recordation of installment payment obligations for incentive pays and similar benefits

- (a) **In General.—** In the case of any [pay](/usc/37/101.md?p=21), allowance, bonus, or other benefit described in [subsection (b)](#b) that is paid to a [member](/usc/37/101.md?p=23) of the [uniformed services](/usc/37/101.md?p=3) on an installment basis, each installment payment shall be charged to appropriations that are available for obligation at the time such payment is payable.
- (b) **Covered Pay and Benefits.—** [Subsection (a)](#a) applies to any incentive [pay](/usc/37/101.md?p=21), special [pay](/usc/37/101.md?p=21), or bonus, or similar periodic payment of [pay](/usc/37/101.md?p=21) or allowances, or of educational benefits or stipends, that is paid to a [member](/usc/37/101.md?p=23) of the [uniformed services](/usc/37/101.md?p=3) under this title or title 10.

## Source credit

(Added Pub. L. 114–92, div. A, title VI, § 662(a), Nov. 25, 2015, 129 Stat. 859.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Prior Provisions

A prior section 1015, added Pub. L. 106–65, div. A, title VI, § 673(a)(1), Oct. 5, 1999, 113 Stat. 674, related to annual report on effects of recruitment and retention initiatives, prior to repeal by Pub. L. 109–364, div. A, title X, § 1046(b)(1), Oct. 17, 2006, 120 Stat. 2393.