These costs are as follows:

1. Pay raise for Public Law 86-91 personnel---

2. Within-grade increases and pay raise annualization_

3. Other personnel related costs___.

4. Change requirements related to enrollment changes__.

5. Estimated increases in tuition-fee schools____

6. Program improvement and price increases

Total

The estimated student enrollment is 149,631, broken down as follows: DOD-operated schools, K-12--

Canal Zone schools___.

Tuition-fee schools.

Millions

$3.8

2.9

1.6

-2.6

2.0

3.4

11. 1

134, 513

6, 466

8, 652

149, 631

Total

CIVILIAN HEALTH AND MEDICAL PROGRAM OF THE UNIFORMED SERVICES

(CHAMPUS)

The budget request for Fiscal Year 1976 for the CHAMPUS program is $539,141,000. Previously this program, which cost-shares the medical care provided dependents of active duty and retired personnel as well as retired members in civilian health facilities, was funded separately in the three military departments. The FY 1975 Appropriations Act transferred funds for the support of the program to the Office of the Secretary of Defense. A CHAMPUS charter, dated 4 December 1974, establishes the Office of CHAMPUS as an Office of the Secretary of Defense field activity. The FY 1976 personnel end strengths for the Office of CHAMPUS provide for improved and expanded management of the program as well as the additional responsibility for the adjudication of claims outside the United States. The program is composed of two major elements-the cost of medical supplies and services reimbursed ($511.4 million) and the administrative cost of operating the program ($27.7 million). The cost of medical supplies and services is expected to increase by $42,150,000 over FY 1975; this includes the added overseas responsibility. The estimated $3,920,000 increase in the administrative cost of the program provides for expansion of the Denver office, contractors' remuneration, and the added overseas programs.

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