One of the biggest challenges for Massachusetts military families has been in finding good quality, affordable child care. The Defense Department child care systems include more than 600 child development centers, school-age care facilities and about 1,100 family...
Frequent deployments and moving every two or three years can intensify the needs of Massachusetts military families in many areas of their lives, such as spouse employment and education. Bases worldwide offer families a wide variety of support services, from legal...
The new retirement benefit for Massachusetts service members includes cash contributions to a Thrift Savings Account, is a major boost for the vast majority of the force that serves for six or eight or ten years but never reaches the 20-year mark to become eligible...
Massachusetts military service members and veterans have seen major changes to their pay and benefits over the past year especially changes to GI Bill rules that can have a far-reaching impact on the lives and livelihoods of military families around the world. GI Bill...
Massachusetts military service members and veterans have seen major changes to their pay and benefits over the past year. Revisions to health care coverage are more complex, and may impact individual service members, veterans and their families in different ways. What...
Massachusetts military service members and veterans have seen major changes to their pay and benefits over the past year. Basic pay is once again rising at the same rate as private-sector wages after several years of tight Pentagon budgets resulted in service members...
What is BAH? Basic Allowance for Housing provides Massachusetts service members not living on base or in government-provided housing a cash supplement to be able to rent housing at local market rates. The amount paid to a service member depends on rank, whether or not...
A Massachusetts' servicemember's military retired pay can be a valuable asset in a divorce. In 1982 Congress passed the Uniformed Services Former Spouse Protection Act, which allows state courts to treat disposable retired pay either as property solely of the member,...
Deciding whether to stay in a difficult Massachusetts marriage or not is hard enough. When you add Massachusetts military life to the equation, things can get really confusing. Here are five tips to help you navigate terrain you may not be familiar with: 1. Consider...
Similar to civilian life, marriage and divorce are two major life-changing events for Massachusetts service members and their families. Marriage Enrichment Engaged couples, newlyweds, and those celebrating many years of marriage can all benefit from marriage...