Tricare Demo in Two Cities Lets Users See a Specialist Without a Referral Through the demonstration, beneficiaries will receive care through the CareSource provider network instead of the Humana...
Manage Household Utility Costs at Your New Base by Avoiding These Pitfalls Being stationed at a location with a hot summer or a cold winter may make it harder to pay large energy bills. Budget billing...
Costs for Tricare Are Going Up in 2026 Most Tricare health plan costs for military and retiree households will go up between 2% and 3% in 2026, with some steeper...
Hidden Benefits: The DoD’s Adoption Subsidy And Its Quiet Impact On Military Families The DoD maintains an array of family support initiatives such as housing allowances, health care, commissary benefits, and...
More Than Free Admission: Museums and Memorials For Military and Veterans Across the country institutions large and small waive admission or host special recognition days for those who have worn the...
What Is a Qualifying Life Event for Tricare? A qualifying life event (QLE) is usually needed to make changes to Tricare outside of open season. So what is a QLE?
What Is a FEDVIP Qualifying Life Event? To enroll in FEDVIP, you need to understand FEDVIP's qualifying life events (QLEs).
Military Spouse Hiring Act Needs Your Support Military spouses face the highest rate of unemployment and underemployment in the nation, but the Military Spouse Hiring Act...
Transgender Military Kids Face 'Profound Harm' from Health Care Restrictions, Lawsuit Alleges Military families with transgender children are suing the Pentagon over the Trump administration’s efforts to cut off gender...
Pentagon Drops Coverage of GLP-1 Weight Loss Meds for Medicare-Eligible Retirees Tricare officials said the Defense Health Agency is eliminating coverage for its Tricare for Life beneficiaries and others to...
Could the US Bring Back the Draft? Who Would Be Called First — and Who Qualifies Could the U.S. bring back the draft? Here’s how Selective Service works today, who would be called first and why only about...
VA Study: Ozempic, Other GLP-1 Drugs May Fight Addiction Across Every Major Substance For the more than 48 million Americans with substance use disorders, including a disproportionate share of veterans, GLP-1...
US Navy Sends Submarines Under Arctic Ice for 100th Time in Milestone Exercise The U.S. Navy has reached a Cold War-era milestone in the Arctic, deploying two Virginia-class submarines beneath the polar...
After the Knock on the Door: How TAPS Supports Military Families for Life After a service member dies, families face a lifetime of grief. TAPS founder Bonnie Carroll explains how the organization...
Exclusive: John Ripley, the Marine Who Blew Up the Dong Ha Bridge, to Receive the Medal of Honor More than 50 years after hanging beneath a Vietnam bridge to stop a North Vietnamese armored invasion, Marine Col. John...
