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Military Times
Stephen, a Marine Corps staff sergeant, agreed to leave service a few years ago when the Corps offered him voluntary separation pay in an effort to trim its personnel ranks. They gave him about $80,000 to leave and, at the time, it seemed like a good deal. The money helped him buy a house in Texas and get started with a job as a financial planner. But now the government wants that money back.
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Military.com
With many soldiers expected to leave the ranks in coming years amid the continued downsizing of the Army will only add to the pressure on programs to ease the transition to civilian life, according to Army Human Resources officials.
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Task & Purpose
Neither population has intentionally chosen to isolate itself from the other. Instead, a "drift" has occurred.
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CNBC
For many military service members, returning home and transitioning into civilian life can be challenging. Now, one filmmaker intends to help bring about change by shining a spotlight on those struggles. "We owe these men and women. We owe them a lot," says director Ric Burns in an interview with CNBC's "On the Money".
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Military Times
Career troops will have an extraordinary new choice to make under the new retirement system approved by Congress: Take the traditional pension checks or opt to receive up to half the promised pension benefit in the form of a one-time, lump-sum cash payment.
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USA Today
Nearly 700,000 "boomerang buyers," or people who are re-entering the housing market after a foreclosure or short sale, are expected to re-enter the housing market this year, and an estimated 2.2 million home buyers could potentially re-enter the market in the next five years, according to a study by credit report agency TransUnion.
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The Stony Brook Press
New York is one of the 18 states added this past July to a federal act granting in-state tuition to veterans attending college under the G.I. Bill, saving veterans headaches and money. The added states will offer in-state tuition for veterans regardless of whether they have established permanent residency in the state of the school they are attending by the passing of the Veterans' Access to Care through Choice, Accountability, and Transparency Act of 2014.
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The Trucker
The U.S. Department of Transportation's Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration announced nearly $2.3 million in grants, double the amount provided in 2014, to 13 technical and community colleges across the country to help train veterans and their families for jobs as commercial bus and truck drivers. The funding is provided through FMCSA's Commercial Motor Vehicle — Operator Safety Training (CMV-OST) grant program.
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Truckinginfo
Fastport Inc., a job placement service active in an industry effort to hire military veterans for driver positions, has embarked on a retention campaign, says Jim Ray, a co-founder and member of an old-line trucking family.
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