Now you can count military service members among those Americans apparently increasingly concerned about their retirement.
According to the latest survey results from the First Command Financial Behaviors Index, 68 percent of middle-class military families – typically senior NCOs and commissioned officers in pay grades E-6 and above with household incomes of at least $50,000 – agree that today's military families won't be able to retire as comfortably as prior generations — up 11 points from a year ago.
Roughly two-thirds of survey respondents agree that military families are concerned about the increased possibility of involuntary separation and they worry that changes to military retirement benefits will encourage fewer years of service.
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