The Servicemember’s Group Life Insurance program now covers traumatic injuries—called TSGLI. It automatically provides coverage up to $100,000 for anyone insured by SGLI for a flat monthly premium of $1. It’s also retroactive, by Public Law 109-13, for “qualifying losses” suffered between Oct. 7, 2001 and Dec. 1, 2005, if they were due to injury from service in Operation Enduring Freedom or Operation Iraqi Freedom.
President Donald Trump on July 4 signed into law $150 billion in defense funds as part of the tax-and-spending package known as the “One Big, Beautiful Bill” after congressional Republicans approved the legislation in narrow, drawn-out votes earlier this week.