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President Obama wants to consider sweeping changes to the military's retirement and compensation system, but he also said that all current troops should be grandfathered under the current retirement plan if they choose.
The Air Force approved 358 early retirements — 311 enlisted service members and 47 officers — under the latest round of Temporary Early Retirement Authority, the Air Force Personnel Center said.
The financial experts accredited by the Veterans Affairs Department to help low-income veterans apply for pensions may not be qualified or have the veteran's best interests at heart, says a group of powerful senators pushing for immediate changes.
More than 12,000 Medicare-eligible retirees have been notified that if they receive care at a VA health facility for illnesses other than service-related conditions, they'll pay more starting Oct. 1.
The Pentagon could save billions in health care costs by raising Tricare fees for working-age retirees, but it would save only millions if it slashed other medical programs, according to a new report from the Congressional Budget Office.
Retirement credits add up for some Guard, ReserveNational Guard and Reserve airmen who have served nontraining active-duty tours over the past five years have been accumulating credits that can significantly reduce their eligibility age for retirement benefits, according to officials with the Air Force
There's a change happening Air Force-wide in the mortuary affairs program, and most may not know about it until, well, it's too late.
A key Republican said Thursday he'll propose cutting cost-of-living adjustments for Social Security recipients and military and federal civilian retirees in an effort to find more money for defense programs.
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About 173,000 military retirees and family members would have the option to remain in Tricare Prime in areas where the Pentagon wants to discontinue the program Oct. 1, under House legislation taking shape this week.
Q. I am a retired Marine with Tricare Prime for myself and my family. My daughter, 19 and a full-time student, is pregnant by her boyfriend, also a full-time student.
Two Republican lawmakers introduced a bill Tuesday that would require the Defense Department to offer the Tricare Prime managed health care option in places where the department plans to discontinue the program on Oct 1.
WASHINGTON — The loud, insistent calls in Washington to rein in the rising costs of Social Security and Medicare ignore a major and expensive entitlement program — the military’s health care system.
Retirees more downbeat than today's troops about warsMilitary retirees are more pessimistic about the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq than troops in uniform today, according to the most recent Military Times Poll.
More than one-third of Tricare Standard beneficiaries have trouble finding a doctor who takes Tricare — and the situation is even worse for Standard users who live in areas served by Tricare Prime, a new government report finds.
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