Guard and Reserve Deployment: Pay Benefits If you are a Reserve or Guard member who is deployed, you become eligible for basic pay, along with some extra pay benefits.
National Guard Pay Overview If you're serving as a member of the National Guard, you're eligible for regular drill pay and might qualify for some special...
Troops Will Start Getting Economic Hardship Bonuses This Month, Though Only $20 on Average Lawmakers on Capitol Hill, concerned that service member pay was not keeping pace with the private sector or inflation...
The 'A-B-C' Path to Credit Card Debt Elimination Go back to the basics -- the A-B-Cs, if you will -- of turning credit-card debt into a piece of your personal history.
Here Are the Air Force's Toughest Jobs That Earn a Bonus, But the Service Won't Explain Planned Cuts The Air Force has approved 78 jobs to receive special duty assignment pay for 2025, an increase from the 70 for 2024, but...
5 Ways to Turn Your Finances Around in the Second Half of 2024 These money moves are all-important components of your financial wellness, so clean them up as we move through the second...
Special Pay Overview In addition to basic pay members may also receive special & incentive pays depending on their career field or location.
5 Rules for Military Homebuyers Here's what to do if you're trying to both buy a house and stay out of financial trouble.
House Approves $2.5 Billion for Junior Enlisted Raises, Which May Be $800 Million Too Little The bill will almost certainly be overhauled before it becomes law since it includes a number of conservative policy riders...
Culture War Political Fights Resurface as House Approves 19.5% Junior Enlisted Pay Raise and Senate Eyes 5.5% For the second year in a row, the House approved its version of the National Defense Authorization Act, or NDAA, mostly along...
Army ROTC Programs at Dozens of Campuses Are Being Shut Down or Reorganized The Army is undertaking a major shake-up of its Reserve Officers' Training Corps footprint, shutting down or reorganizing...
Afghan Ally Who Was Detained by ICE Now Facing Fast-Tracked Deportation Sayed Naser Noori, whose legal team has provided reporters with paperwork confirming he worked with the military as an...
New Army Shaving Policy Will Allow Soldiers with Skin Condition that Affects Mostly Black Men to Be Kicked Out The Army is preparing to roll out a new policy that could lead to soldiers diagnosed with a chronic skin condition that...
After Offer of Back Pay, Only 13 COVID Vaccine Refusers Returned to Military Service Months after the Pentagon rolled out a policy aimed at wooing back service members booted from the military over the COVID-19...
LA Army Veteran with Purple Heart Self-Deports to South Korea Under Threat of Deportation An Army veteran who was awarded a Purple Heart self-deported to South Korea as he was threatened with being detained and...