2025 Military CONUS COLA Rates The Department of Defense has announced the 2025 Continental United States (CONUS) Cost-of-Living Allowance (COLA) rates.
Here Is the 2025 Pay Raise for Disabled Veterans and Military Retirees Military retirees and disabled veterans will receive 2.5% increases to their monthly paychecks for 2025, thanks to the annual...
Annual Cost-of-Living Boost for Veterans Benefits Finalized by Congress The increase applies to disability benefits, clothing allowances, and dependency and indemnity compensation for surviving...
12,000 More Troops Based in US to Get Cost-of-Living Allowances in 2024 About 17,000 service members will receive a total of about $26 million in CONUS COLA payments in 2024.
Overseas Cost-of-Living Cuts Are About to Take a Bite Out of Paychecks. Some Bases Are Already Warning Troops. Cuts to service members' overseas cost-of-living allowances are coming, and some areas are starting to warn troops about the...
A Key Survivor Benefit Plan Deadline Was Moved Up. Here’s What You Need to Know The deadline to enroll in the military's Survivor Benefit Plan during this year's open season has just shortened --...
Bill Guaranteeing Cost-of-Living Increase for Veterans in 2024 Heads to President's Desk The annual task in Congress ensures that VA compensation keeps pace with Social Security increases.
Pay Cuts for Military Families Overseas Coming This Month as Pentagon Delays Run Out Cost-of-living allowances for service members and their families stationed overseas will decrease starting this month, the...
Days Ahead of Massive Allowance Cuts for Some Military Families, Pentagon Allegedly Working on a Fix Officials are already working behind the scenes to prevent the cuts from happening, a defense official with knowledge of the...
How to Avoid the Military 'COLA Trap' by Getting Smart About Your Retirement Date To understand how pay inversions happen, you'll need to get your head around how your retirement will be calculated.
Hegseth Orders End to Race Consideration in Admissions at Military Service Academies Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has ordered all military service academies to no longer consider race, ethnicity or sex for...
'Billion Dollar Spy' Is the Real Story of the Only Russian Agent Whose Portrait Hangs in CIA Headquarters The upcoming film, based on a book from Pulitzer Prize-winning author David E. Hoffman, stars Russell Crowe, Tony Goldwyn...
Pentagon Moves Out on Transgender Ban After Supreme Court Ruling About 1,000 service members who volunteered to leave the military after the Trump administration unveiled its transgender...
Soviet-Era Spacecraft Plunges to Earth After 53 Years Stuck in Orbit The chances of anyone getting clobbered by spacecraft debris were exceedingly low, scientists said.
Lessons Not Learned As this is being written on the 50th anniversary of the fall of Saigon and the final end of the Vietnam War, that history is...