Less than one-fifth of the military spouses who are eligible for the Defense Department's scholarship program are using it, according to an analysis by Rand Corp. Among spouses eligible for the My ...

Defense officials provided more information Friday about how the ongoing government shutdown is affecting military quality-of-life and family programs. (Cpl. Alex Fairchild/Marine Corps) Funding for ...

More military spouses— including spouses of service members in all enlisted ranks — will be eligible for the Defense Department’s $4,000 tuition assistance program aimed at boosting opportunities for ...

A newly expanded military spouse scholarship program run by the Defense Department will be capped at the first 1,250 approved applicants, officials announced Tuesday. In the past, the My Career ...

SCHINNEN, Netherlands - The decision to resume the popular Military Spouse Career Advancement Accounts (MyCAA), announced this summer by the DoD, brought cheers from participants who may continue in ...

Military family programs that are not used have a bad tendency to get cut. When only one in five qualified spouses used the MyCAA spouse tuition program, you gotta wonder: Can it be saved? Or, maybe, ...

FORT LEONARD WOOD, Mo. - (Sept. 30, 2010) -- The Department of Defense Military Career Advancement Account for spouses changed drastically ... and rapidly, affecting spouses everywhere who were ...

ARLINGTON, Va. — The Defense Department is drastically scaling back a career education benefit program for military spouses to its "original intent" after it had grown so popular that the military ...

Military spouse scholarships may be linked to retention. (zimmytws/Shutterstock) A scholarship program for spouses of junior military personnel may be contributing to higher retention rates, as well ...

A legislative proposal could be the first step in expanding a popular tuition assistance program for spouses. (zimmytws/Shutterstock) A bill introduced in the Senate on Tuesday could be the first step ...

CHESAPEAKE --Heather Lealand planned to pay for her nursing degree with financial assistance from the MyCAA program, but shelearned the money she'dbeen banking on would no longer be there in October.