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The Reserve Component Survivor Benefit Plan

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This earlier post describes the SBP and its options, as well as the pros and cons of buying it for your survivors. If you landed here from a search engine or some other link then I'd recommend reading the previous two posts before proceeding with this one. Some of the references and links in this post include articles from the Association of the … [Read more...] about The Reserve Component Survivor Benefit Plan

More SBP details

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Let me disrupt the posting schedule for a day with some additional SBP information from Monday's post. One of the book's contributors forwarded me not one but four separate SBP briefs put out by the Air Force Personnel Center. With the gracious permission of Mr. Dan McCullough, who added some clarification slides, here they are. This 50-slide … [Read more...] about More SBP details

Military Survivor Benefit Plan – An Overview to Help You Decide if You Should Buy in or Not

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This "simple little SBP summary" mutated into a two-part description. Today we'll cover Survivor Benefit Plan (SBP) for active-duty retirees and in the next post we'll cover the Reserve Component SBP. The SBP will cost you up to 6.5% of your pension, so it's a significant effect on your retirement budget and on the amount of savings needed to … [Read more...] about Military Survivor Benefit Plan – An Overview to Help You Decide if You Should Buy in or Not

Military Dental Care – Active Duty and Retiree Dental Care

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Military Dental Care is one of the subjects that didn't fit well into the book (at least not the first edition!), but it could be a significant part of some veterans' budgets. Active-duty servicemembers don't even have to think about dental care because it's provided by their military treatment facility. However, families, Reservists/National … [Read more...] about Military Dental Care – Active Duty and Retiree Dental Care

Reserves and National Guard: Tricare Reserve Select and Tricare Retired Reserve health insurance

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TRICARE health insurance is one of the military's best benefits for active-duty servicemembers and their families. Depending on the duty location and the specific plan, a family's out-of-pocket expenses are among the world's lowest costs for healthcare systems. What about the Reserves and National Guard? Well, not so fast. For decades, … [Read more...] about Reserves and National Guard: Tricare Reserve Select and Tricare Retired Reserve health insurance