Do Military Households Have Misconceptions About Retirement? Here’s What They Said in a New Survey From building a solid financial foundation to preparing for emergencies and planning for retirement, the results of a recent...
More Options, Better Predictability: What Military Households Want from Their Retirement Plans If a new survey is any indicator, building a plan for the execution stage of retirement is clearly on the mind of the...
Military Families Less Likely to Dip into Retirement Savings, Survey Says -- with One Big Exception Those who wear or have worn the military uniform, based on this particular survey, appear less likely to have tapped their...
New Survey Confirms Military Service Is a Financial Differentiator The results of the 2024 Retirement Confidence Survey confirmed what I have long believed: Military service is a...
Funding for 5.5% Junior Enlisted Pay Raise Included in Senate's Pentagon Spending Bill A proposed 5.5% pay raise next year for junior enlisted troops has won the backing of a key Senate panel in charge of...
Financial Trade-Offs: Is Your Money Aligned? People have to live and do things in a way that aligns with their priorities.
Space Force Guardians Who Reenlist in Certain Jobs Could Make Up to $360,000 The bonuses are aimed at retaining skilled Guardians in some of the service's most crucial job fields.
From Debt to College to the Unexpected, 4 Reasons to Start Saving Money Now Here are four examples of what I will call "worthy whys" as you look for your own motivation to save.
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...
Federal Government Shutdown Grinds into a Second Week as Tempers Flare at the Capitol As the federal government shutdown enters a second week, there’s no discernible endgame in sight.
Trump Targets Blumenthal, Calling for Investigation into Senator's Vietnam Service Claims President Donald Trump is targeting U.S. Sen. Richard Blumenthal again after Connecticut’s senior U.S. senator grilled U.S...
At 50, He Survived Marine Boot Camp — Then Fought at Peleliu and Okinawa When 50-year-old Paul Douglas showed up at Marine Corps boot camp in 1942, the white-haired economics professor looked more...
Ukrainian Drones Attack Russian Cavalry Troops in Rare 21st-Century Encounter A short video circulating online this month appears to show a Russian mounted patrol being struck by a Ukrainian drone near...
When The Government Can Afford Everything Except The Essentials Every shutdown forces the government to decide what counts as “essential.” Air traffic controllers and TSA agents fall into...