If you're a mid-career soldier enrolled in the Blended Retirement System (BRS), the rules around your continuation pay just ...

HM2 Ronald Rhea has chosen the new Blended Retirement System, weighing the choices carefully for the financial future of his family. Here he's pictured with wife Cheri, Kailei, 8 and Koi, 5. (Courtesy ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. When the Blended Retirement System was created more than five years ago, one of its primary goals was to help service members set ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about personal finance, retirement, and military benefits. The new military retirement plan, the Blended Retirement System ...

The Department of Defense has released final numbers on military folks, by branch of service, who switched into the new Blended Retirement System during a year-long, opt-in period that ran through Dec ...

Sen. Patty Murray, D-Wash., on Tuesday introduced legislation that would provide military service members an additional opportunity to opt into the recently implemented blended retirement system. The ...

A bipartisan group of lawmakers introduced a bill Tuesday to allow federal workers at shuttered agencies to temporarily tap into their 401(k)-style retirement accounts to help cope with missed ...

With passage of the new Blended Retirement System (BRS) in 2016, the Defense Department's Office of Actuary, assisted by computer modeling from the think tank Rand Corp., made some assumptions ...

About 1.6 million service members are deciding whether they want to stay with the legacy retirement system or switch to the new Blended Retirement System in 2018. The deadline is Dec. 31. (Staff Sgt.

When the Blended Retirement System was created more than five years ago, one of its primary goals was to help service members set themselves up financially for the future, even if they didn’t stay for ...

The Department of Defense has released final numbers on military folks, by branch of service, who switched into the new Blended Retirement System (BRS) during a year-long, opt-in period that ran ...