Disabled Veterans to Congress: Move Out on Stalled Bill to Allow Payment of Both Retirement and Disability Benefits Despite wide bipartisan backing, the Major Richard Star Act has languished for years, increasingly frustrating the veterans...
Want to Ruin Your Finances? Here Are 8 Ways to Do It You may be on a path that leads to financial ruin, and that's not funny.
Federal Appeals Court Finds Coast Guard Illegally Forced Senior Enlisted into Retirement The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit upheld a lower court's 2021 decision that the Coast Guard's use of "Career...
Retirees, Civilians, Want to Live in Base Housing? Yes, You Can! Living in base housing isn't just for active-duty military personnel. Retirees, civilians, and other eligible individuals can...
Pieces of a Pie: How to Start Saving for Retirement Right Now Your retirement income will likely come from a variety of sources. Imagining retirement income as pie pieces can make the...
Military Advocacy Group Seeks to Prevent Changes to Tricare for Life After Fees Suggestion The Military Officers Association of America, or MOAA, wants to prevent any discussion of enrollment fees for Tricare for...
Marines Leaving Service Must Now Notify Corps at Least 6 Months Before Departure Previously, Marines could resign or retire with as little as four months of advanced notification. The update went into...
Intimidated by Investing? Do It Systematically One way to ease the fear of investing is to do it systematically. Here's why.
How to Start Saving for Retirement Military Saves Week runs from April 15-19, 2024. Here’s how to start saving for retirement now.
Build Up from a Solid Financial Foundation with This Pyramid-Style Approach If retirement planning and preparation is an area of your life you are looking to build out, here are a few items you might...
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...
