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 Resource: Spending Plan Considerations	3. Potential Deployment-Related Income Changes Resource: Special Pay, Entitlements, and Other Potential Income Changes	4. Savings and Emergency Funds
5. The Savings Deposit Program Resource: The Savings Deposit Program	6. Warning Signs of Financially At-Risk Service Members Resource: Warning Signs of Financially At-Risk Service Members	7. Transition to Intermediate Personal Finance Topics	8. Fundamentals of Debt and Credit Resource: Fundamentals and Management of Debt and Credit
9. Deployment and Student Loans Resource: Deployment and Student Loans	10. Income Tax Fundamentals	11. Taxes and Deployment Resource: Potential Deployment-Related Tax Benefits and Changes	12. Understanding the Thrift Savings Plan
13. Managing Your TSP Account Resource: Managing Your TSP Account	14. Transition to Insurance	15. Insurance Overview	16. Life Insurance Resource: Life Insurance
17. TRICARE Overview	18. Transition to Military Consumer Protections	19. SCRA, MLA and Credit Protection Resource: SCRA, MLA and Credit Protection	20. Misleading Consumer Practices and Identity Theft Resource: 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 Resource: Estate Planning Tasks
25. Course Wrap-up