His ETS date was September 29th. We have 180 days from this day to be on his active duty insurance (TAMP, no idea what that stands for). After that we have to sign up for Tri-Care Reserves. The 180 days is almost up so I got a hold of the one person that I have ever came in contact with who knows squat about the insurance. She is in the Reserves or Guard or something and she is the DEERS administrator. We met her when we got our ID cards in August. Sgt D. I will call her.
Sgt. D. tells me the website to go to and after numerous emails back and forth and me giving her my husbands SS # she informs me that when we got our Reserves ID's back in October that the
Last week, I scanned and emailed her a copy of his DD214, which he basically has to have to do anything. I tried again last night to get us signed up for Tri-Care Reserves and it's still not working. I emailed her again this morning and she said their system was down. She's going to keep in contact with me and let me know when it is fixed.
I'm not too worried about it because the military is always screwing things up, nothing can be easy, and Sgt. D. told me that if something were to happen to either of us that we would be covered.
Hopefully someday soon we will have insurance again.
10 comments:
how annoying!
I imagine this is pretty common in dealing with this kind of stuff!
That's gotta be sressful to say the least to find out that you haven't been insured for the past few months, right?
i told ya the army sucks
That sounds so frustrating! Hopefully it'll get fixed soon!
dont get sick
Thanks for coming over from Shortmama's! I've returned the favor and am following you back. Hopefully your insurance issue gets cleared up soon. My husband is a veteran, and it took him Forever to get his VA disability benefits, and then they lost his paperwork, so he had to go through the process again! Unorganized, understaffed, I'm not sure what the issue was, but it was quite ridiculous. It should be cut and dry on what needs to be done and not make it stressful on our veteran's and those still serving..they've been through enough already and shouldn't have to come home and fight for things all over again. Mmmkay, done ranting about it! Have a great weekend!
Unfortunately, this is pretty typical; I have lots of family that have been in the military. One of our family friends was in the Marine Corps forever, WWII, Korea and Vietnam wars, and when he retired they tried to take away his benefits!
Ugh! I hope it all works out for you!
yikes! i find insurance so confusing and quite the headache. i had no extended health care for three months this fall, and we were so glad to finally be able to go for dentist and eye appointments when my insurance finally kicked in!!
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