Pre-Deployment

Help put your finances in order before deployment begins. Use these pre-deployment financial videos to make your financial preparations. View the videos in the order listed below. Handouts, if available, are located below the video title. Download the handout(s) to access the embedded links. 

1. Course Overview 
 

2. Spending Plan Considerations 

3. Potential Deployment-Related Income Changes

4. Savings and Emergency Funds

5. The Savings Deposit Program

6. Warning Signs of Financially At-Risk Service Members 

7.  Transition to Intermediate Personal Finance Topics

8. Fundamentals of Debt and Credit 

9.  Deployment and Student Loans 

10. Income Tax Fundamentals

11. Taxes and Deployment 

12. Understanding the Thrift Savings Plan

13. Managing Your TSP Account

14. Transition to Insurance 15. Insurance Overview

16. Life Insurance

17. TRICARE Overview 18. Transition to Military Consumer Protections

19. SCRA, MLA and Credit Protection

20. Misleading Consumer Practices and Identity Theft

21. Transition to Survivor Benefits and Estate Planning 22. Survivor and Dependent Benefits 23. Estate Planning Overview

24. Estate Planning Tasks

25. Course Wrap-up