By MyArmyBenefits Staff

If you visit the Soldier for Life website regularly for retirement planning information you may have noticed something has changed. It is new, different, and easier to navigate in the best ways! 

The main focus of the website refresh was to make it, first and foremost, mobile-friendly. The new version of the site is optimized for reading on a mobile phone. Information is easier to find and navigate to, no matter where you are surfing the web and no matter where you are in your Army journey. The features discussed here focus on the retirement journey.

One new feature on the site is the availability of the Change of Mission (for Soldiers with 17+ years of service and their families) newsletter as a webpage. You can now read articles online without opening a PDF. It also makes it easier to read articles from past issues. This new format will make it easier to find information about the subjects you are most interested in. The PDF versions of the newsletter, up to three years back, are still available on the site if you prefer to download or read them in that format.

The “Retirement Planning” section of the site under “Army Retirement” contains all the tools you need to plan for the process of retirement. There are checklists, guides, briefings and information on key retirement decisions.

Walk through the Retirement Process and complete tasks as you work from 36 months out to your planned official retirement date. Find everything you need to know about the Survivor Benefit Plan (SBP) decision and other important retirement decisions. Locate a retirement planning seminar (https://soldierforlife.army.mil/Army-Retirement/Retirement-Planning/Retirement-Planning-Events) near you, your nearest Retirement Services Office (RSO) (https://soldierforlife.army.mil/About-Us/Contact-Your-RSO), and link to the Change of Mission newsletter webpage.

In the “Families” section, find helpful education and employment information for spouses. Read about considerations around Army retirement for spouses. Find out more about the Survivor Benefit Plan (SBP) and survivor benefit details for surviving spouses and children and guardians of surviving children.

Finally, the “Retirement Quick Links” page gets you to the documents you need to find fast. If you know what briefing, brochure, or guide you are looking for, this may be the place to start.

No matter where you are in your Army journey, if you haven’t seen the new site, please give it a try at: https://soldierforlife.army.mil/Army-Retirement/Retirement-Planning!