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• Browse Over 150 Fact Sheets for Benefit Eligibility and Highlights
• Calculate Estimates of Your Survivor and Survivor Education Benefits
• Forecast Your Retirement Benefits

Special information is provided for severely injured Soldiers and their families in the Wounded, Ill and Injured section of the site and for surviving family members of fallen Soldiers in the Casualty and Survivor Assistance section. If you have questions or comments please contact us.

Your TSP contributions are NOT automatic if you opted into BRS – they don’t happen unless you choose to make them. Visit www.tsp.gov

Thrift Savings Plan-Maximizing Your Retirement Savings

If you opted into the Blended Retirement System (BRS) in 2018 or invest in the Thrift Saving Plan (TSP) are you maximizing your investment? The TSP website (www.tsp.gov) provides planning tools covering topics such as Ways to Save, Maximize Your Retirement Savings, Tax Advantages, The Power of Compounding, and many more interactive tools.

BRS opt-in Eligibility

The opt-in period for Blended Retirement System (BRS) ended effective December 31, 2018 for most military members. There are some exceptions for the following members:

If you are a cadet attending service academy who joined on or before December 31, 2017, or are in the Reserve Officer Training Program with a signed contract on or before December 31, 2017, you’re also grandfathered under the legacy retirement system. However, if commissioning (or being placed on pay status) occurs after the 2018 opt in window, you will have 30 days upon commissioning to opt into the BRS. If you enter an academy or sign your service contract on or after January 1, 2018 your retirement plan is automatically under BRS.

Break in service - If you have break in service, rejoined after the 2018 calendar year opt-in window and still meets the less than 12 years of service criteria or have fewer than 4,320 retirement points, you will have 30 days to choose the BRS or remain in the legacy retirement system.

Individual Ready or Standby Reserve. If you are a BRS-eligible member of the Individual Ready Reserve (IRR) or the Standby Reserve who entered paid status for the first time after 2018, you may receive a one-time BRS opt-in extension. Once in paid status, you have 30 days to opt into the BRS.

For more information see; BRS guide or please see your personnel or finance office for further information.