How to Use Your VA Disability, GI Bill & Healthcare Benefits While Living Overseas | Conversation with Fiscal Foxhole #235
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Spencer Reese discusses utilizing VA benefits and the GI Bill while living abroad, sharing insights from his experience as a veteran in New Zealand.
Advertiser Disclosure: This video may contain links through which we are compensated when you click on or are approved for offers. The information in this video was not provided by any of the companies mentioned, and has not been reviewed, approved, or otherwise endorsed by any of these entities. All opinions, analyses, and recommendations are the author's alone, not those of any bank, credit card issuer, airline, or hotel chain. Military Money Manual may receive compensation from JPMC. Spencer joins the Foxhole to talk about something most veteran benefit conversations skip: what happens when you take those benefits outside the United States. A former Air Force C-17 pilot now living in New Zealand, Spencer shares hard-won lessons on collecting VA compensation abroad, navigating overseas healthcare, stretching the GI Bill, and the realities of immigration and quality of life beyond the U.S. border. Topics Covered Spencer's background: Air Force ROTC, flying the C-17 for 10 of 12 active-duty years, and leaving at the 12-year mark without a 20-year pension How militarymoneymanual.com started and the military's unique investing culture The TSP, Roth IRA, and the "triple tax benefit"…
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