"...A new study commissioned by the Marine Corps concludes that the new Blended Retirement System won’t endanger force retention under any reasonable set of economic and behavioral assumptions.
It also suggests that young career-minded service members who opt into the BRS to get government matching of their Thrift Savings Plan contributions will still have potential career retirement benefits that most civilian peers would envy.
As the Defense Department last week launched a new BRS “Opt-In Course” to educate members being offered the chance in 2018 to choose the BRS, the think tank CNA released a report on how the plan would affect Marine Corps force objectives as well as the lifetime take-home income of career personnel.
The report has a 17-word title, 10 co-authors and can be read online at: http://bit.ly/2kMQfp1..."
