Category Archives: Insurance

Medicare, Tricare For Life, Medigap insurance, and Congress


(Today’s post was inspired by reader Bridget, who also contributed a large portion of the book’s chapter on Reserves and National Guard.  Thanks again, Bridget!) Do military retirees need more medical insurance than Tricare? For the vast majority of us, … Continue reading

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Military Survivor Benefit Plan – An Overview to Help You Decide if You Should Buy in or Not


This “simple little SBP summary” mutated into a two-part description. Today we’ll cover Survivor Benefit Plan (SBP) for active-duty retirees and in the next post we’ll cover the Reserve Component SBP. The SBP will cost you up to 6.5% of … Continue reading

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