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There are currently four different retirement pay systems depending on when you joined the military: For more information about these retirement systems and details on how to calculate your ...
WASHINGTON (Army News Service) -- Beginning in January 2018, a new Department of Defense enterprise-wide retirement system will go into effect. The blended retirement system, which was instituted ...
While retirement from the military feels like the ultimate freedom, the transition from active duty to retired status can ...
(U.S. Army photo by Sgt. Kimberly Trumbull/Released) The 15-year early retirement option will be available to certain categories of Regular Army, National Guard and Army Reserve officers ...
The revised regulations, AR 135-180 (Retirement for Non-Regular Service), and AR 600-8-7 (Army Retirement Services), were published April 28, replacing previous versions. AR 600-8-7 was last ...
Are you ready to decide whether to jump to the new Blended Retirement System? More than 1.6 million service members are eligible to make that choice about their future military retirement benefit ...
But for younger service members who may decide to leave the military before the 20-year mark — and would get no retirement benefit at all under the traditional system — the new system might be ...
Military households reported more savings and confidence in their retirement prospects than non-military households, according to annual survey results released recently by the Employee Benefit ...
In the past year, the military’s retirement plan has undergone its most comprehensive change since World War II. The old system — a defined “cliff vesting” pension plan — is out.