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10 U.S.C. § 1788 — Additional family assistance
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**(a) Authority.—** The Secretary of Defense may provide for the families of members of the armed forces serving on active duty, in addition to any other assistance available for such families, any assistance that the Secretary considers appropriate to ensure that the children of such members obtain needed child care, education, and other youth services.
**(b) Primary Purpose of Assistance.—** The assistance authorized by this section should be directed primarily toward providing needed family support, including child care, education, and other youth services, for children of members of the armed forces who are deployed, assigned to duty, or ordered to active duty in connection with a contingency operation.
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**(a) Authority.—** The Secretary of Defense may provide for the families of members of the armed forces serving on active duty, in addition to any other assistance available for such families, any assistance that the Secretary considers appropriate to ensure that the children of such members obtain needed child care, education, and other youth services.
**(b) Primary Purpose of Assistance.—** The assistance authorized by this section should be directed primarily toward providing needed family support, including child care, education, and other youth services, for children of members of the armed forces who are deployed, assigned to duty, or ordered to active duty in connection with a contingency operation.
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In this chapter:
(1) The term “uniformed services” means the armed forces and the Commissioned Corps of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and of the Public Health Service.
(2) The term “dependent”, with respect to a member or former member of a uniformed service, means—
(A) the spouse;
(B) the unremarried widow;
(C) the unremarried widower;
(D) a child who—
(i) has not attained the age of 21;
(ii) has not attained the age of 23, is enrolled in a full-time course of study at an institution of higher learning approved by the administering Secretary and is, or was at the time of the member’s or former member’s death, in fact dependent on the member or former member for over one-half of the child’s support; or
(iii) is incapable of self-support because of a mental or physical incapacity that occurs while a dependent of a member or former member under clause (i) or (ii) and is, or was at the time of the member’s or former member’s death, in fact dependent on the member or former member for over one-half of the child’s support;
(E) a parent or parent-in-law who is, or was at the time of the member’s or former member’s death, in fact dependent on him for over one-half of his support and residing in his household;
(F) the unremarried former spouse of a member or former member who (i) on the date of the final decree of divorce, dissolution, or annulment, had been married to the member or former member for a period of at least 20 years during which period the member or former member performed at least 20 years of service which is creditable in determining that member’s or former member’s eligibility for retired or retainer pay, or equivalent pay, and (ii) does not have medical coverage under an employer-sponsored health plan;
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**(a) Programs Authorized.—** Consistent with such regulations as the Secretary of Defense may prescribe to carry out this section, the Commander of the United States Special Operations Command may conduct programs to provide family support services. In selecting and conducting any program under this subsection, the Commander shall coordinate with the Under Secretary of Defense for Personnel and Readiness.
**(b) Selection of Programs.—** In selecting the programs to be conducted under subsection (a), the Commander shall—
(1) identify family support services that have a direct and concrete impact on the readiness of special operations forces, but that are not being provided by the Secretary of a military department to covered individuals; and
(2) conduct a cost-benefit analysis of each family support service proposed to be included in a program.
**(c) Additional Authority.—** The Commander may expend up to $10,000,000 during each fiscal year, from funds available for Major Force Program 11, to carry out family support programs under this section.
**(d)** Repealed. Pub. L. 116–92, div. A, title XVII, § 1702(c)(1), Dec. 20, 2019, 133 Stat. 1796.]
**(e) Definitions.—** In this section:
(1) The term “Commander” means the Commander of the United States Special Operations Command.
(2) The term “immediate family members” has the meaning given that term in [section 1789(c) of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title10-section1789/c&num=0&edition=prelim).
(3) The term “special operations forces” means those forces of the armed forces identified as special operations forces under [section 167(j) of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title10-section167/j&num=0&edition=prelim).
(4) The term “family
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**(a) Requirement to Provide Assistance.—** The Secretary of Defense shall carry out a program to provide relocation assistance to members of the armed forces and their families as provided in this section. In addition, the Secretary of Defense shall make every effort, consistent with readiness objectives, to stabilize and lengthen tours of duty to minimize the adverse effects of relocation.
**(b) Types of Assistance.—**
(1) The Secretary of each military department, under regulations prescribed by the Secretary of Defense, shall provide relocation assistance, through military relocation assistance programs described in subsection (c), to members of the armed forces who are ordered to make a change of permanent station which includes a move to a new location (and for dependents of such members who are authorized to move in connection with the change of permanent station).
(2) The relocation assistance provided shall include the following:
(A) Provision of destination area information and preparation (to be provided before the change of permanent station takes effect), with emphasis on information with regard to moving costs, housing costs and availability, child care, spouse employment opportunities, cultural adaptation, community orientation, education systems, school enrollment procedures, and State-specific provisions under the Interstate Compact on Educational Opportunity for Military Children.
(B) Provision of counseling about financial management, home buying and selling, renting, stress management aimed at intervention and prevention of abuse, property management, and shipment and storage of household goods (including motor vehicles and pets).
(C) Provision of settling-in services, with emphasis on available government living quarters, private housing
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TITLE 10—ARMED FORCES
§ 1788
Program office at the military installation to which
the member of the Armed Forces concerned is as-
signed:
‘‘(A) Credible information (which may include a
reasonable belief), obtained by any individual with-
in the chain of command of the member, that a
child in the family or home of the member has suf-
fered an incident of child abuse.
‘‘(B) Information, learned by a member of the
Armed Forces engaged in a profession or activity
described in section 226(b) of the Victims of Child
Abuse Act of 1990 (42 U.S.C. 13031(b)) [now 34 U.S.C.
20341(b)] for members of the Armed Forces and their
dependents, that gives reason to suspect that a
child in the family or home of the member has suf-
fered an incident of child abuse.
‘‘(2) REGULATIONS.—The Secretary of Defense and
the Secretary of Homeland Security (with respect to
the Coast Guard when it is not operating as a service
in the Navy) shall jointly prescribe regulations to
carry out this subsection.
‘‘(3) CHILD ABUSE DEFINED.—In this subsection, the
term ‘child abuse’ has the meaning given that term
in section 226(c) of the Victims of Child Abuse Act of
1990 (42 U.S.C. 13031(c)) [now 34 U.S.C. 20341(c)].’’
PLAN FOR IMPLEMENTATION OF ACCREDITATION
REQUIREMENT
Pub. L. 104–106, div. A, title V, § 568(c), Feb. 10, 1996,
110 Stat. 335, directed Secretary of Defense to submit to
Congress, not later than Apr. 1, 1997, a plan for carrying
out the requirements of this section.
§ 1788. Additional family assistance
(a) AUTHORITY.—The Secretary of Defense may
provide for the families of members of the
armed forces serving on active duty, in addition
to any other assistance available for such fami-
lies, any assistance that the Secretary considers
appropriate to ensur
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