What were you most interested in last year? According to MOAA’s site stats, you were very concerned about your military benefits – and for good reason!
Here are the top five MOAA articles of 2014 (in order of most visits to fewest):
- COLA Watch – MOAA is keeping an eye on the Consumer Price Index month by month, so you can plan for life after military retirement. Includes a monthly graph of inflation throughout the year!
- White House: Raise Fees, Cut Pay, Housing, and Commissary – The Administration unveiled it’s FY 2015 defense budget priorities and they included increased TRICARE fees and cuts to military pay, housing and commissaries. MOAA made this issue the main advocacy focus for 2014. Ready for the Budget Battle!
- Fact vs. Fiction – MOAA’s director of Government Relations, Col. Mike Hayden, USAF (Ret), explained the numbers behind the proposed budget cuts, and why they were wrong. MOAA even created a leave-behind publication for members of Congress, explaining the issue.
- Army “Pink Slip” Details Emerge – Last summer, Army officials released more information on their involuntary drawdown efforts.
- The Bottom Line- What’s On the Chopping Block – MOAA’s director of Government Relations, took to his monthly column to let members know what we expected out of the 2015 defense budget. His predictions were prescient.
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