Report Calls for Higher TRICARE Fees

Week of August 11, 2008

The Department of Defense released the second volume of the report of the Tenth Quadrennial Review of Military Compensation (QRMC), which assesses the effectiveness of military pay and benefits in recruiting and retaining a high-quality force. The study recommends that a complex four-part retirement plan be tested on a few thousand military volunteers to verify that it would be a more equitable, flexible and efficient system than the prized 20-year benefit used by the military since the end of World War II. Completing a 30-month study of pays and benefits, the 10th QRMC, also endorsed higher TRICARE enrollment fees for retirees under age 65 and their families, and higher co-pays in TRICARE's retail pharmacy network.

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