Something new on the health care front for military service members

Something new on the health care front for military service members

For the first time ever, uniformed military service members have access to a health care benefit that’s long been available to civilian federal employees. That would be a health care flexible spending account. The enrollment period is nearly over, but it will come around again in the 2025 open season and for special circumstances between now and then. Ronald Garner, assistant director for military compensation policy at the Defense Department, j…

Deadline Nears for Troops to Sign Up for Health Care Flexible Spending Accounts

The benefit, one of several initiated last September by then-Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin, allows service members to save up to $3,300 that can be spent on eligible health care expenses.