Quality of life issues and inability to find child care meant female servicemembers were more likely to miss out on military retirement benefits. (Photo: Shutterstock)
In case you thought that the U.S. Coast Guard was the only branch of the military worried about their financial status, and that only because of the recent partial government shutdown, you'd be mistaken.
The latest Blue Star Families annual Military Family Lifestyle Survey results, in collaboration with Syracuse University's Institute for Veteran and Military Families, finds that, far from feeling secure about a government paycheck, financial issues/stress was the top stressor for military families for the first time.
That was followed by deployments and relocation stress.
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Marlene Satter
Marlene Y. Satter has worked in and written about the financial industry for decades.
