Military retirees, their spouses and perhaps 80 percent of 320,000 survivors already able to draw benefits under the military’s Survivor Benefit Plan, can take comfort in a recent report on the ...

Military spouses, one of the biggest decisions at retirement rests squarely on your shoulders: whether to elect Survivor Benefit Plan (SBP) coverage in retirement and how much?

Military retirees, their spouses and perhaps 80 percent of 320,000 survivors already able to draw benefits under the military’s Survivor Benefit Plan, can take comfort in a recent report on the ...

Edith G. Smith, a citizen advocate for deceased military retirees and their survivors, has been battling to have Congress end the SBP-DIC offset since 1999, a year after the death of her husband ...

Kuhn said that although some retired military are likely succeeding in being permitted under the open season to make new elections for their SBP beneficiaries, his firm alone is representing ...

A new law will prevent military retirees from losing Survivor Benefit Plan benefits when their ex-spouse dies before they do, by allowing the benefit to be transferred to a current or future spouse.

More than 800,000 military retirees who declined the Survivor Benefit Plan at retirement will get another chance to buy into a much-improved program, starting this fall. But delayed enrollment won ...

But as in years past, the Senate hasn’t set aside money to pay full SBP to these surviving spouses. The Congressional Budget Office estimates the cost at $6.6 billion over the next 10 years.

Military retirees, their spouses and perhaps 80 percent of 320,000 survivors already able to draw benefits under the military’s Survivor Benefit Plan, can take comfort in a recent report on the ...

Military retirees, their spouses and perhaps 80 percent of 320,000 survivors already able to draw benefits under the military’s Survivor Benefit Plan, can take comfort in a recent report on the ...

Military retirees, their spouses and perhaps 80 percent of 320,000 survivors already able to draw benefits under the military’s Survivor Benefit Plan, can take comfort in a recent report on the ...