The Defense Department’s Tricare Management Activity has created a new policy to prevent a break in Tricare Prime coverage for family members of National Guard and Reserve members recalled to active duty. A TMA news release calls the new policy, which authorizes a 30-day retroactive Prime enrollment period, “a seamless transition” from Tricare Prime coverage under the Transitional Assistance Management Program to the “same coverage as an active duty family member.”
A three-month continuing resolution that ended in December inflicted less pain on the Department of the Air Force than it had expected, as procurement and construction continue in the new year. The federal government operated under a stopgap spending measure that stretched from the beginning of the fiscal year on…