VA Plans to Test Several New Ways to Limit 'Choice' Plan Costs VA Secretary (Dr.) David J. Shulkin used congressional testimony Tuesday to preview new steps the VA might test for...
Were Store Brands Used to Dampen Commissary Savings Targets? Defense Commissary Agency (DeCA) officials say they correctly calculated the “baseline” shopper savings that Congress...
Lejeune Vet Claims to Be Approved Faster for 8 Illnesses Veterans who served at Camp Lejeune, N.C., at least 30 days from August 1953 to December 1987, or surviving spouses have been...
Blended Retirement's Lump Sum Feature Enticing But Is It Fair? Those who opt into the new Blended Retirement System (BRS) will face a decision on retired pay so unusual that the DoD has...
Patients Will Save, Some Docs Will Flee New TRICARE Dental Plan 1.37 million TRICARE Dental Program beneficiaries will shift May 1 from MetLife to United Concordia.
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...
