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Category Archives: Benefits
Tricare Help: Can new wife use Tricare with other insurance?
Q. I am an active-duty soldier who recently got married. My wife has health insurance through the college she attends. Is there any way she can cancel that and go with Tricare? She paid for the year through September, so … Continue reading
Tricare Help: Does nursing-home patient risk losing Tricare?
Q. I work for a Medicare Advantage plan, a special-needs plan for people who live in nursing homes and have Medicare Parts A and B. We have someone who wants to enroll a parent who has Tricare. I know we … Continue reading
Webb stands firm against Tricare fee hikes
As Congress prepares to debate the Pentagon’s 2013 budget proposal, which includes an initiative to raise health care fees for military retirees, a key senator says the nation must stand by an unwritten promise made to service members to provide … Continue reading
Decision looms on Tricare West contract dispute
Competitors vying for a federal contract to manage the nation’s largest Tricare region are waiting on a Government Accountability Office decision on who will take home the $17 billion deal.
Lawmaker: Remove expiration on GI Bill benefits
A Connecticut Democrat proposes dramatically expanding veterans’ GI Bill eligibility by eliminating a time limit on using some education benefits.
Veterans, VA split over mental health expansion
WASHINGTON — Two years after Congress passed a high-profile law to improve health care for military veterans, lawmakers and advocates are again raising alarms that the sprawling Department of Veterans Affairs is not expanding help for the nation’s former fighters … Continue reading
Trademark ‘GI Bill,’ lawmakers urge VA
The phrase “GI Bill” should be trademarked by the federal government so it cannot be used in deceptive marketing, 14 senators recommend.
DoD delivers plan for new health agency
A proposal to combine the administration and management of the military health system into a Defense Health Agency would trim just $50 to $100 million from the Defense Department’s budget, but bigger savings would be realized as operations become more … Continue reading
Tricare Help: I’m pregnant; how soon should we marry for me to get coverage?
Q. I am the girlfriend of a soldier, and I am 10 weeks pregnant. We have every intention of getting married, but I want to know if there is a time limit in which we need to wed in order … Continue reading
GI Bill students surprised when living stipend stops between semesters
Breaks between college terms have become tough on some students using the Post-9/11 GI Bill, they say, because they no longer receive living stipends during those periods.