Retirement-Trimming Budget Heads to Senate Floor The Senate on Tuesday agreed to vote on the budget deal that includes a reduction in cost of living adjustments for working...
Congress Set to Overturn COLA Cuts for Retirees A flurry of bills to repeal cuts to the cost-of-living-adjustment for retirees may come up for consideration as soon as...
Lawmakers Write Bills to Fight COLA Drop Lawmakers are making it clear they intend to fight to stop the reduced cost of living adjustment for military retirees.
Pentagon Considers 401(k)-like Retirement Plans In a major shift in how it would pay retired troops, the Pentagon is considering adopting a 401(k)-like retirement plan.
Air Force Halts Force Shaping to Reassess Options The Air Force has temporarily halted processing early retirement and voluntary separation requests to re-assess costs and...
Air Force Tweaks Force Shaping Plan The Air Force has modified its early retirement and voluntary separation programs as part of its plan to cut the force by 25...
Panel Approves Troop Reductions, Not Benefit Cuts A House subcommittee on military personnel is reluctantly going along with troop cuts but not on changes to retirement and...
Survey: Military Families Still Concerned About Pay, Benefits Pay, benefits and retirement issues are still the top worries for military families, according to new results from an annual...
Panel Proposes Overhauling Military Retirement and Tricare A panel recommended overhauling the decades-old retirement system and dismantling the existing health care program for...
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...
