If your in the Military Reserve...can you sell back benefits?

[Michael Iacono]

Just wondering...

Ive always considered it but i never wanted to go in as enlisted - always wanted to be an officer.

But, say you are working for FDNY EMS as a medic, and your in the Military reserves doing your one weekend a month and 2 weeks out of the year. You would be receiving benefits from both the military and FDNY. You dont need them both, so could you "sell" one group of benefits back???

 

[escapedcaliFF]

Not for the military side Im aware of. FDNY I have no clue. You can always transfer your GI Bill benefits to your spouse or kids though.

 

[EMT11KDL]

what benefits are you talking about? If you are in the reserves, you have Tricare (Health Insurance) which cost roughly 50 a month for single and 200 for family, this is optional and not required. If you were active duty it would cost you nothing. Hope that helps.

 

[SunshineCamo]

No you can't sell a military benefit back, but you can opt not to use them. You don't have to use Tricare Reserve Select (although you should because it's pretty good), and you don't have to buy the life insurance. You can opt out of paying for the old GI Bill, and it wouldn't change anything with the Post 9/11 GI Bill.