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HASC leaders at odds over TRICARE hike

The chairman of the House Armed Services Committee said Thursday he will include language implementing the Defense Department's request to increase insurance fees for military retirees. That position is at odds with the panel's subcommittee on military personnel, which on Wednesday unanimously approved language which would prohibit the increase.

Tags: DoD , pay and benefits , TRICARE , Congress , Robert Hale , Buck McKeon , Jared Serbu , DoD Report

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Dueling testimony on TRICARE fees

Members of the House Armed Services Subcommittee on Personnel are studying the Defense Department's proposal to increase fees for working-age retirees who use the military's TRICARE health insurance benefit. The panel heard, in separate hearings, from DoD officials defending the increase, and retiree groups who fear it is a "camel's nose under the tent."

Tags: DoD , pay and benefits , Congress , TRICARE , health care , Robert Gates , Stan Strobridge , Rick Jones , Niki Tsongas , National Association of Uniformed Services , Military Officers Association of America , Jared Serbu

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Travel card programs need better internal controls

CRS report details options for Congress to improve the troubled program.

Tags: mngt , OMB , Congressional Research Service , GAO , Charles Grassley , Center for Democracy and Technology , Travel card program , inspectors general

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