By Gerry J. Gilmore, American Forces Press Service
May 19, 2008
The Defense Department recently merged two military support programs into one as part of efforts to better address departing service members financial and transition needs, a senior Pentagon official told U.S. legislators May 16.
The previously separate Financial Readiness and Transition Assistance programs were combined in March to form the new Office of Personal Finance and Transition, Jane Burke, principal director for military community and family policy, said in testimony before members of the U.S. House of Representatives Veterans Affairs subcommittee on economic opportunity.
Returning to private life after serving in the military is a very complex undertaking, Burke told legislators. To assist them in doing so, we must empower our service members with the tools and information they need to develop individual solutions to the challenges they may face as they return to civilian life.
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