Fort Drum Survivor Outreach Services

Here is our first 10th Mountain Division - Survivor Outreach Services Christmas Tree. This tree includes all of the 10th Mountain Division Soldiers that were killed in combat and several other Soldiers from all over the United States. It is in front of the PX. Please stop in and see it. There are approximately 400 pictures.

Members of Gold Star families now have a unique opportunity to work for the House through a one-year paid fellowship with a participating Member office. Apply for the Gold Star Family Fellowship Program today: https://cao.house.gov/gold-star

SBP-DIC Offset Phased Elimination news: Are you a military surviving spouse with SBP and DIC? Watch for your individual letter from DFAS with estimates of how the first phase of the SBP-DIC Offset Phased Elimination (effective January 1, 2021) will affect your SBP pay. Letters will be mailed in early December 2020. Spouse SBP annuitants who are subject to the offset may see the first change in the SBP annuity payment they receive on February 1, 2021. Check out the FAQs: https://www.dfas.mil/RetiredMilitary/survivors/SBP-DIC-News/

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New information on the 2021 COLA for military retirees and annuitants: there will be a 1.3 percent increase for most retired pay and Survivor Benefit Plan annui...ties, and the SSIA, effective Dec. 1, 2020. Military retirees will see the change in their Dec. 31, 2020 payment and annuitants in their Jan. 4, 2021 payment. https://go.usa.gov/x7Xg2 See more