# Publication of Housing Price Inflation Adjustment Under 50 U.S.C. App. § 531
**AGENCY:**
Office of the Under Secretary (Personnel and Readiness), DoD.
**ACTION:**
Notice.
**SUMMARY:**
The Servicemembers Civil Relief Act, as codified at 50 U.S.C. App. § 531, prohibits a landlord from evicting a Service member (or the Service member's family) from a residence during a period of military service except by court order. The law as originally passed by Congress applied to dwellings with monthly rents of $2,400 or less. The law requires the Department of Defense to adjust this amount annually to reflect inflation and to publish the new amount in the *Federal Register* . We have applied the inflation index required by the statute. The maximum monthly rental amount for 50 U.S.C. App. § 531 (a)(1)(A)(ii) as of January 1, 2013, will be $3,139.35.
**DATES:**
*Effective Date:* January 1, 2013.
**FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:**
Major Ryan Oakley, Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Personnel and Readiness, (703) 697-3387.
Dated: February 6, 2013.
Aaron Siegel,
Alternate OSD Federal Register Liaison Officer, Department of Defense.