I’m insured…again!
It only took from the time I turned 21 until NOW to get it done - damn dad for being lazy and NOT listening when I asked him about it months & months ago :rolleyes: When you’re in the military or part of a military family, everyone gets benefits - insurance, access to things on the base like the exchange, commissary, etc - which are accessed with valid military ID cards, however when one turns 21 you’re knocked out of the system. The only way to keep your benefits when you’re 21 is if you’re in school or you can’t take care of yourself (IE: disabled); you get to keep your benefits until you graduated from college or when you turn 23 which ever comes first. My dad retired FOR GOOD in September from the Kansas Army National Guard (he was in the Marines for 18 years though…but that’s a different story) so it wasn’t until last month when he was doing all his retirement paperwork that he got around to getting me back in the DEERS system which is where all the information for dependants and such is store.
Even though my ID expires on Dec. 29th, 2007 (I graduate from the community college in Dec.), when I transfer I just have to get a new enrollment verification and they can update my information. I’m just really glad I finally have my insurance back because that $60/month for a BC prescription that I NEED was killing my mom’s wallet, haha, and paying a $9 copay is so much nicer than $60 out of my pocket or hers. But of course, my dad is stubborn and doesn’t listen - hell, we even told him that we needed an actual copy of the form he had to fill out for DEERS which lists all his information and has his signature on it and he wouldn’t fax it to us, he insisted that all I had to do was go to the ID office show them my ID and they could pull up in the computer - WRONG. The lady told me that because my sponsor (my dad) wasn’t with me in person (he lives in Kansas) that I had to have the actual form with his signature so she gave me the fax number while I was at the office and I had to call my dad and get him to fax the form to her, it was a big I TOLD YOU SO…haha!
The closest base to where I live in the Charleston Air Force Base (the Marine Corps base is in Beaufort which is 2 hours from here) and I hardly EVER go up there, so I had to get my mom to drive me up there because I wasn’t exactly sure how to get there since I never go there. They wouldn’t even let her on the base with me….because my old ID was expired; I was like great, I’m going to get lost because I never come to this base and then I’m going to get to the ID office and not be able to get my ID because I have absolutely no idea what to do. I found the office okay and signed myself in via the computer with no problems, I got my ID with no problems after they received the faxed form from my dad and I was good to go 
Yay!
October 12th, 2007 at 7:33 pm
Yikes. $9 compared to $60 for birth control pills IS a nice discount. My mom’s a nurse, so luckily my prescriptions are covered by her benefits… I’m going to hate when I have to be on my own and pay for everything myself.