4 Steps to Maximize Your Holiday Budget By planning ahead and sticking to these four tactics, you can enjoy the spirit of the holidays without the stress of...
Should You Borrow from Your TSP Account? Financial experts don’t recommend taking out loans against retirement accounts such as the military’s Thrift Savings Plan...
Marine Corps Says it Will Reimburse Nursing Mothers Up to $1,000 for Shipping Breast Milk During Moves The Marine Corps will reimburse its troops up to $1,000 for shipping breast milk during a permanent change of station move...
How Are Foreign-Born Military Spouses Doing? Being a military spouse is challenging, and for foreign-born spouses, there are even more stressors to keeping a family...
Why Thanksgiving Is the Perfect Time for Important Financial Conversations in Your Military Family In military families, where change is constant and the future is sometimes uncertain, Thanksgiving offers a rare and valuable...
Tricare Changes are Coming in 2025. Here’s What Beneficiaries Need to Know Right Now Tricare beneficiaries need to be aware of changes taking place in both the East and West regions and may need to take action...
Basic Needs Allowance Overview The Basic Needs Allowance can potentially add hundreds of dollars to the paycheck of a military member with a family whose...
When Is a Good Time to Change Your Thrift Savings Plan Investments? If an investor is feeling a lot of stress regarding their investments, that could indicate that it’s time to reevaluate their...
Rural Veterans Are Struggling with Access to VA-Provided Care About a quarter of the nation's 19 million veterans live in Census-defined rural areas, according to the VA.
Tricare Costs Are Going Up Again in 2025 Military and retiree households will pay more for Tricare in 2025, with most increases in the 2% to 3% range.
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...
