TRICARE Young Adult Coverage up to Age 26 (ANG, AFRC), MARCH 2011 TOTAL FORCE SERVICE CENTER (TFSC) - DENVER UTA SUPPORT (ANG, AFRC)
ARPC NOTAM 088 - Commanders -- TRICARE Young Adult Coverage up to Age 26 (ANG, AFRC) - The new program, TRICARE Young Adult, will be available to eligible dependents who age out of TRICARE at age 21 (or 23, if full-time college students) who are not married or eligible for their own employer-sponsored coverage.
TRICARE is fast-tracking implementation. Beginning later this spring, qualified, unmarried dependents up to age 26 will be able to purchase TRICARE coverage on a month-to-month basis.
Upon implementation later this spring, eligible dependents will have an option to purchase TRICARE Standard/Extra health coverage on a month-to-month basis.
Those who are eligible to purchase coverage should save their receipts after the first of the year, as the benefit will be retroactive to Jan. 1, 2011, provided premiums are also paid back to January 1. After purchasing coverage, enrollees will be issued a new ID card as verification. Go to http://www.tricare.mil/tya for more info.
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MARCH 2011 TOTAL FORCE SERVICE CENTER (TFSC) - DENVER UTA SUPPORT (ANG, AFRC) - TFSC Denver phone counselors will provide UTA support the following Saturdays, March 5, 12 and 19.
During UTAs, counselors can be reached by calling 800-525-0102 or DSN 926-6528 from 8 a.m. - 4 p.m. MT. Citizen Airmen can always request assistance 24/7/365 by logging onto the virtual Personnel Center-Guard and Reserve, the customer service Web portal for personnel services, at http://arpc.afrc.af.mil/vPC-GR/.
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PATRICIA S. BLASSIE, Colonel, USAFR
Commander, HQ Air Reserve Personnel Center
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