Pros and Cons of the New Military Retirement Plan. Published March 15, 2016. The 2017 National Defense Authorization Act contained some changes to these previously published details.

Military retirement is now going to be modernized so that starting immediately after you join, the military is going to contribute an automatic 1 percent of your salary and will match up to ...

Answer: To get the most out of the new retirement system, make sure you contribute enough to the federal Thrift Savings Plan to qualify for a matching contribution—something the old system doesn ...

Only 280,000 active-duty members and just over 72,000 reserve component personnel chose to shift out of the High-3 plan.

As retirement programs across the U.S. have adapted over time, the military retirement program has largely remained unchanged. In fact, the current system has not changed much since World War II ...

U.S. armed forces--get ready to salute the 401(k). The military, which currently has a traditional defined benefit plan, will adopt a new hybrid program next year that blends an existing defined ...

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150227-N-DV340-098-SAN DIEGO (March 2, 2015) – Chief Machinist’s Mate Steve Clarke is presented with a flag during his retirement ceremony at the Murphy Canyon Chapel. Clark served 25 years in ...

A Pentagon study recommends that a complex four-part retirement plan be tested on a few thousand military volunteers to verify that it would be a more equitable, flexible and efficient system than ...

Reforming the military’s retirement ... over four years while reducing the projected value of government contributions to each enlistee’s Thrift Savings Plan by over $100,000 at retirement.

Blended Plan Features Trade-Offs To understand the BRS, it's worthwhile to take a look at the military's legacy retirement pension plan as well as the TSP, because BRS melds the two.. Under the ...

A Military Retirement Plan: The Beginning - Part I. Brief Background: I'm a former non-commissioned officer who has completed a 5-year enlistment in the Army.