Paying Back Premiums Unavoidable

Week of August 27, 2007

Stars and Stripes reports that roughly 56,000 servicemembers owe the Defense Department an estimated $25 million for failing to pay premiums for life insurance they did not realize they had. The DoD estimates some 23,000 active-duty troops in dual-military marriages and 33,000 reservists owe the Pentagon an average of about $446 each in unpaid FSGLI premiums. A recent United States Army Europe (USAREUR) memo concludes that the Army's actions to recoup unpaid insurance premiums from Soldiers are, in the opinion of the judge advocate general, "compulsory, mandated by law."

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