Pay & Benefits

Your 2021 Guide to Military Benefits

Maximizing the options available to you is essential to making the most out of your military career.

OPM temporarily drops relocation requirements for special military spouse hiring

The new Office of Personnel Management regulation allows agencies to use military spouse special hiring authorities in a broader range of cases.

2 hours ago

Report calling for troop and retiree pay cuts is grossly misleading

The figures used in the CSIS report were grossly misleading in 2012 and are even more so now.

3 days ago

Pay & Benefits

Federal judge gives green light for two mold lawsuits filed by military families

Judge denies privatized housing companies' request to dismiss the mold lawsuits.

Commissary customers worldwide will soon have curbside pickup

Click2Go starts Sept. 20 at commissaries in Europe, and Sept. 27 in the Far East.

4 days ago

Temporary hike in BAH imminent for some troops, families caught in housing crunch

Temporary BAH increases from 10 to 20 percent in 56 military housing areas will help ease the financial stress for service members.

7 days ago

New plan scales back massive cuts in military medical billets

Many of the billets will be either replaced by civilian hires or their work will be 'absorbed' by others.

10 days ago

Here’s how the Air Force rates public education services at your base

An Air Force analysis looks at academic performance, school climate and services at school districts serving all 157 installations.

10 days ago

Drastic changes to military pay, benefits needed to meet rising personnel costs: report

The average cost per active duty service member for the military this fiscal year was $136,000.

10 days ago

JBAB charter school opens after years of persistence by military and civilian parents

The public charter school will improve educational opportunities for military kids as well as kids in the civilian community.

2 weeks ago

DoD backs away from plan to merge commissary, exchange systems

Costs of merger would be "prohibitive" and the risks to the commissary and exchange benefits are "unacceptable."

3 weeks ago

Can military commissaries help you fight food inflation?

Commissaries have seen food prices go up, too, but they have some advantages over civilian grocers that help keep prices increases at a minimum for customers..

4 weeks ago

Air Force Senior Airman DeMarcus Garrett, Team Air Force athlete, powers through Team Navy defenders during the Department of Defense Warrior Games wheelchair rugby finals

Army cancels this year’s DoD Warrior Games due to COVID concerns

For the second year, COVID causes DoD Warrior Games to be canceled.

5 weeks ago