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“Adequate Financial Support” No Longer Adequate Per AFI 36-2906 While all of the branches of the U.S. Armed Forces require their personnel to provide temporary family support to family members during separation, the Air Force family support standards in AFI 36 2906 were, for a long time, the only ones…
Military Housing In A Divorce One of the valuable benefits a military member receives is military housing – either living on post in housing provided by the military, or by living off-post and receiving BAH (Basic Allowance for Housing) to defray the rent or mortgage costs. When a military family living in government…
FERS and Military Retirement Service Credit The Federal Employees Retirement System (FERS) pension vests at five years: “an employee or Member must complete at least 5 years of civilian service creditable under section 8411 in order to be eligible” for the FERS annuity. 5 U.S. Code § 8410. Moreover, a federal…
Court of Appeals Upholds Denial of Veterans Benefits for Divorce Spouses In an unpublished Colorado Court of Appeals case, the trial court said “no” to veterans benefits for divorced spouses. The husband had been discharged from the military and was receiving monthly VA disability payments, but no military retirement benefits. The…
What are the available military benefits for divorced spouses available? This is a common question among divorcing military spouses, concerned that they’ll have nothing to show from the military after years of their own sacrifices during marriage. The Military Divorce Guide is a complete resource, with comprehensive articles explaining the details of divorced…
The Post 911 GI Bill, created by the Veterans Educational Assistance Act of 2008, codified at 38 U.S. Code § 3301, et seq as a successor to the traditional Montgomery GI Bill, is far more generous than its predecessor. And for that reason, GI Bill and divorce issues are a concern to spouses…
In December 2016, Congress dropped a bombshell on the family law world. For the first time since the Uniformed Services Former Spouses Protection Act was enacted 33 years previously, the federal government has basically “federalized” the formula for military spouse retirement benefits. The National Defense Authorization Act, or NDAA, is…
This month has not been good for the image of military base housing. Recently, the Military Family Advisory Network released a report to Congress, Living Conditions of Families in Privatized Military Housing, complete with photos and real-world examples, which depicted on-post housing as being slum-like. Military Base Housing Depicted as Slum Based upon…
It seems like common knowledge that after a divorce, the former military spouse has 30 days to move out of military housing. Says who? When researching base housing for the source of this claim (which is true, by the way), I kept digging deeper & deeper into military housing, and…
If it’s almost January, it’s almost time for the military’s annual pay raises. On Friday, December 14, the Pentagon announced the new 2019 rates for BAH, the military’s Basic Allowance for Housing, and it’s a 2.5% increase. This increase is in addition to the previously-announced 2.6% annual pay raise for 2019 included in the…
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