Retirement Decisions: The Survivor Benefit Plan The Survivor Benefit Plan is designed to provide on-going income for your spouse and minor children should you die before...
Supplemental Health Insurance for Retirees Even though you are covered by TRICARE, a supplemental insurance policy is a good idea for retirees.
Calls to Enhance Retired Guard/Reserve Benefits Readers of Tom Philpott’s Military Update Column sound off on retired Guard and Reserve benefits, TRICARE co-pays, and more.
Combine Military and Federal Civilian TSP Accounts The TSP website explains that if a contributor has both a civilian and a uniformed services Thrift Savings Plan account, and...
Ryan-Murray Deal Hits Younger, Future Retirees Under a bipartisan budget deal, the lifetime value of military retirement could be cut up to $124,000.
Military Retirement and VA Benefit Payments Won't Increase In 2016 Lower gas prices will keep retirement and disability payments from going up next year
Details Revealed About New Retirement System New Blended Retirement System has bonuses, government matching TSP amounts that are transferable, and lump sum retirement pay...
SC Increases Retirement Pay Deduction New law substantially reduces state income tax on military retirees.
Veterans Disability Compensation & Retirees 2017 COLA Announced The increase, while small is better than last year when the rates didn't go up at all.
Social Security Partners With VA To Speed Up Disability Claims Veterans filing for Social Security disability should see their case processing time sped up greatly.
Federal Government Shutdown Grinds into a Second Week as Tempers Flare at the Capitol As the federal government shutdown enters a second week, there’s no discernible endgame in sight.
Trump Targets Blumenthal, Calling for Investigation into Senator's Vietnam Service Claims President Donald Trump is targeting U.S. Sen. Richard Blumenthal again after Connecticut’s senior U.S. senator grilled U.S...
At 50, He Survived Marine Boot Camp — Then Fought at Peleliu and Okinawa When 50-year-old Paul Douglas showed up at Marine Corps boot camp in 1942, the white-haired economics professor looked more...
Ukrainian Drones Attack Russian Cavalry Troops in Rare 21st-Century Encounter A short video circulating online this month appears to show a Russian mounted patrol being struck by a Ukrainian drone near...
When The Government Can Afford Everything Except The Essentials Every shutdown forces the government to decide what counts as “essential.” Air traffic controllers and TSA agents fall into...
