The deadline to enroll in the military's Survivor Benefit Plan during this year's open season has just shortened -- dramatically.

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 ...

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 Survivor Annuity Program finally offers long-promised open season to choose new beneficiaries Some retired service members say they are either outright denied or given an impossible ...

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 ...

More than two months have elapsed off military retirees' one-time, yearlong Survivor Benefit Plan second chance at enrollment, and the Defense Department still hasn't provided a way to do it. The ...

Defense officials, in a late-hour attempt to persuade senators not to join the House in voting to raise military survivor benefits, said the case for doing so has been built on a series of &#8220 ...

This is commonly referred to as the SBP-DIC offset. In practice, that means about 65,000 surviving military families across America — and 7,825 across Texas — receive, on average, $925 less a ...

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 ...