Since 08-25-05
Uniformed Services Family Members and Survivors Over Age 75 Receive Permanent Identification Cards
Since 08-25-05
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Subject: Uniformed Services Family Members and Survivors Over Age 75......
http://www.tricare.osd.mil/news/2005/news0525.cfm
Uniformed Services Family Members and Survivors Over Age 75 Receive Permanent
Identification Cards
A permanent United States Uniformed Services Identification (ID) card will be
available September 2005 for all eligible Uniformed Services family members and
survivors of deceased personnel, who are age 75 and over.
Currently, Uniformed Services retirees are the only persons who receive a
permanent ID card. Beneficiaries currently in possession of a valid ID card
should obtain the new permanent ID card within 90 days of expiration.
If beneficiaries’ cards are not due to expire for at least another year, they do
not need to apply for the new ID card until their existing card is within 90
days of expiring. The Military Health System requires all eligible beneficiaries
to have an ID card in order to receive health care.
Beneficiaries will continue to receive health care benefits and their claims
will be processed with their current ID card until they receive the permanent ID
card as long as their personal information is current in the Defense Enrollment
Eligibility Reporting System (DEERS). Even though active duty and retired
service members are automatically registered in DEERS, their family members are
not.
It is the sponsors’ responsibility to register their family members into DEERS.
Sponsors must also make any necessary updates in DEERS for themselves and their
family members to ensure TRICARE benefits and claims processing will continue
without interruption.
Changes to sponsor’s status, home address and family status (marriage, divorce,
birth and adoption) are examples of information that needs to be properly
maintained in DEERS. It is important for surviving family members to update
their personal information in DEERS when the active duty or retired sponsor
dies.
The DEERS Support Office can be reached by telephone at 1-800-538-9552, or
information can be found online at
www.tricare.osd.mil/DEERS.
For more information about the permanent retiree ID card or DEERS enrollment,
beneficiaries may visit the TRICARE Web site at
www.tricare.osd.mil/deers or call
the
The TRICARE Regional Office (TRO) North (1-877-874-2273),
The TRO South (1-800-444-5445), or
TRO West (1-888-874-9378).
Overseas beneficiaries can call 1-888-777-8343.
Beneficiaries can also find the nearest ID card issuing facility at www.dmdc.osd.mil/rsl/owa/home.
http://www.tricare.osd.mil/news/2005/news0525.cfm
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Contributed,
YNCS Don Harribine, USN(ret)