Category Archives: Benefits

Tricare Help: Does baby need father’s last name to get Tricare?

Answering your questions on Tricare.

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Apply ASAP for caregiver benefits, VA says

The Veterans Affairs Department will start accepting applications on Monday for a new, landmark benefits program for the caregivers of severely disabled Iraq- and Afghanistan-era veterans.

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House panel would block Tricare fee increases

The Defense Department has not convinced a House panel of the immediate need to increase Tricare fees for working-age retirees.

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VA official blasted for sanitization lapses

The Veterans Health Administration is putting patients at risk of hepatitis and HIV with its slow and secretive response to incidents in which medical instruments were improperly sanitized at facilities around the country, irate members of a House committee said … Continue reading

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Fed begins phase-out of paper benefit checks

Paper checks for federal benefits are going the way of the dinosaurs, and the first step happens May 1.

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Happy 25th, Glock U.S.

Glock U.S. opened its doors 25 years ago with three desks, an IBM PC and a water cooler — and then grew to dominate the U.S. pistol market with 250 employees selling 450,000 pistols a year.

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Premiums set for Tricare young adult coverage

Military health coverage for young adults under age 26 will cost about $200 per month, officials announced Wednesday.

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Sporting gunmakers roll out tactical updates — and one slick new six-shooter

The firearms industry largely escaped the recent recession, especially in terms of sales of personal defense weapons.

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These cadets pack some punch

Don’t tell West Point coach Bobbi Scroggin that women don’t know how to take a punch — or land one.

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Webb not yet willing to raise Tricare fees

The chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee’s personnel panel said Wednesday that while he is looking for personnel-related savings in the 2012 defense budget, he is not ready to raise Tricare health care fees for retirees.

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