Military families now have access to a searchable database of tenant feedback, including complaints, about privatized military housing to aid their research before moving to a new duty station. Defense officials announced the launch of the long-awaited DOD Housing Feedback System on Aug. 12. The publicly available database allows verified...

Military families finally have a database for housing complaints

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The Department of Defense on Monday announced the launch of a feedback system on privatized military housing. In May, Mother Jones and the Project on Government Oversight detailed fraud and mismanagement at housing.

Military service members now have online feedback option for issues with private housing

Pittsburgh, PA

JULY 22, 2024 – Beginning in 2026, the legacy Uniformed Services Identification (USID) card will no longer be accepted for access to benefits, privileges, or DoD bases. According to the DoD Common Access Card website, USID cards are issued to retired military and Reserve members, dependent family members of uniformed Service members, and other eligible individuals in accordance with DoD policy. On July 31, 2020, the DoD started issuing the Next Generation USID cards at select DoD ID card facilities with a phased implementation for all facilities which was completed in December that year.

DoD Requiring New ID for Retired Military

Texas State

A Texas woman, Janet Yamanaka Mello, 57, was sentenced to 15 years in federal prison for embezzling nearly $109 million from a youth development program for military families. Mello, a financial manager at Fort Sam Houston, used the stolen funds to purchase multiple mansions, luxury cars, and designer accessories. Fraudulent...

Texas woman sentenced for $109 million theft from US Army program

Business Insider

The 8th Circuit ruled that Biden cannot carry out cheaper student-loan payments and debt relief through the SAVE plan, replacing its prior pause.

8 million student-loan borrowers on Biden's new repayment plan just got more bad news after a federal court officially blocked cheaper payments and debt cancellation

Military.com

USAA has agreed to pay $64.2 million to settle a class-action lawsuit alleging that its banks improperly charged fees and high interest rates that violated federal protections for service members who held loans.Under the agreement released Friday, defendants USAA Federal Savings Bank and USAA Savings Bank -- the company's credit card subsidiary that is now part of USAA Federal Savings Bank -- did not admit any wrongdoing but agreed to pay roughly 210,000 members to settle a case filed in November 2021.In the suit, four plaintiffs alleged the banks did not lower interest rates or fees in compliance with the...

USAA to Pay $64.2 Million to Service Members in Settlement over Improper Bank Fees, Interest

WashingtonExaminer

The Department of Veterans Affairs predicts it will have a $15 billion budget shortfall, which would put disability, medical, and benefit payments to over 7 million veterans and survivors at risk. The shortfall is attributed to an increase in filing prompted by the PACT Act. For this year, the DVA expects to be $2.9 billion […]

Millions of veteran benefits at risk as VA deals with predicted $15 billion budget shortfall

USAA has agreed to pay roughly $64.2 million to settle allegations that its banks overcharged service members and veterans on interest rates and fees, and gave them products they did not request, according to court documents. The settlement, filed on Friday, ends a three-year class-action lawsuit that also questioned USAA’s...

USAA to pay $64.2M to settle military overcharge lawsuit

The often-ignored truth is that military spouses are out of the workforce at statistically higher rates than their civilian counterparts.

The Myth of Choice: Why We Ignore Military Spouses Out of the Workforce

With the rise in cost of living that the United States is experiencing, saying a job is overpaid is a bold statement. But the key is in comparison. Case in point? Why should a mega-church preacher make more money than a high school teacher?. As this list shows, some professions...

20 Jobs That Shouldn’t Pay Americans as Much as They Do

Alaska State

A little more than a year ago, in Biden v. Nebraska (2023), the Supreme Court struck down one of the Biden administration’s student loan forgiveness plans. The Court’s decision took extraordinary liberties with the law, misreading a statute that clearly authorized the plan and relying on a doctrine known as “major questions.”

Republicans ask the Supreme Court to gut student loan relief a second time

Ohio State

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The Lantern

On Tuesday, licensed Ohio dispensaries began legally selling non-medical marijuana to consumers; however, the drug’s possession, growth and/or usage are still prohibited on Ohio State’s campus. Credit: Jefferee Woo/Tampa Bay Times/TNS [Original caption: Four citizen-led petitions with proposals to update Dallas’ charter hit the 20,000 valid signature threshold to make it on the Nov. 5 election ballot, including one that would ban police officers from arresting or citing people carrying less than four ounces of marijuana.] As of Tuesday, students 21 and older can now legally purchase marijuana in Ohio.

Dispensary sales of recreational marijuana began Tuesday; possession and usage still prohibited on Ohio State’s campus

Colorado State

David Heitz

A bill quietly introduced this spring in the Colorado legislature to decriminalize the possession of drug paraphernalia obtained by harm reductionists has become law. As low-key as the legislation was introduced, the bill was signed into law without fanfare June 6. It garnered little to no media attention.

Colorado legalizes needles, pipes for meth and crack if obtained by harm reduction group

Alan Pedrick, 41, is worried he'll have to cut back on his kids' after-school programs if the SAVE student-loan repayment plan never goes into effect.

A millennial dad's $0 student-loan payments gave his family some breathing room. Then courts blocked Biden's repayment plan leaving 8 million borrowers like him in limbo.

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J. Souza

A retired military officer who had been struggling with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) tragically died after jumping from the world’s largest cruise ship last month, authorities confirmed.

Cruise Passenger Who Jumped from World's Largest Ship After Dispute Suffered with PTSD

The opinions expressed in this op-ed are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views of Military.com or the official position of the Department of the Army or Department of Defense. If you would like to submit your own commentary, please send your article to opinions@military.com for consideration.When I came to Congress two years ago and joined the House Veterans' Affairs Committee, I was cautiously optimistic that lawmakers would put aside their differences to serve the needs of veterans. After all, some Republicans had just broken party ranks to support the PACT Act, a cornerstone law pushed...

Republican Project 2025 Takes Dead Aim at Veterans' Health and Disability Benefits

New York State

The US Sun

AMERICANS who used the Lyft app during a specific period could qualify for distributions from a recent settlement pot. The direct payment opportunity comes after a class action lawsuit was filed against the ride-share company by the New York State Attorney General (OAG). Lyft was accused in the suit of...

Lyft will send one-time payments from $38m sales tax settlement – but only if you used the app between specific dates

Denver, CO

No, pallet shelters for people experiencing homelessness don’t fold into caskets. It’s a question a reader posed one of the first times I wrote about pallet shelters. I find the pallet shelters to be more palatable than ice fishing tents. The Colorado Village Collaborative operates both micro-communities and the so-called Safe Outdoor Spaces with the tents. We all learned the tents are not safe when a fire roared through a CVC Safe Outdoor Space, destroying the compound quickly. Officials never disclosed a cause of the fire.

Opinion: No, pallet shelters for homeless in Denver, Aurora don’t fold into caskets

Los Angeles, CA

Los Angeles Times

The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development announced Thursday that it will change a rule that counts service-related disability benefits as income, often excluding veterans from housing restricted to low-income residents.

U.S. housing officials to scrap a rule that denies housing to the most disabled veterans

Kentucky State

Northern Kentucky Tribune

Gov. Andy Beshear sent a letter to Anne Milgram, administrator for the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) on Wednesday, expressing his support of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ recommendation that the DEA ease restrictions on marijuana.

Gov. Andy Beshear pens letter to DEA in support of easing federal restrictions on marijuana

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Pentagon launches feedback portal for privatized military housing

(The Center Square) – The Pentagon on Monday launched a new feedback system to help address longstanding problems with military housing. The Department of Defense launched...

Pentagon launches feedback portal for privatized military housing

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