Are you paying your insurance premium through an allotment deduction from your Retired pay? If so, here are some points you may need to consider:

**If your insurance premium amount changes, please contact DFAS to change the amount of your allotment deduction by calling 1-800-321-1080. For Tricare (Dental, Prime, USFHP) and Long Term Care insurance allotments, the member must contact the provider so an automated input can be submitted.

**If you've changed your address, remember to inform both DFAS and your insurance company of your new address.

**Many allotment starts, stops and adjustments are possible nearly 24 hours a day, 7 days a week via the automated system myPay. Please see https://mypay.dfas.mil/mypay.aspx for further details.

**For those members who have policies with insurance companies other than Tricare (Dental, Prime, USFHP) and Long Term Care, please make certain that your insurer understands that they cannot stop, start, or change your allotment on your behalf. You can make changes to your account by calling 1-800-321-1080 after answering some validation questions.

**Have you received a Retiree Account Statement indicating a net pay change? If so, it may be a sign that you need to contact your insurance company and have us adjust your allotment amount. If an allotment is sent to the insurance company that is greater than the amount due for your premium, the company will often send the overpayment back to DFAS. We, in turn, refund the overpayment to you in the same method that your Retired pay is received.

**We will notify you of payment returns from the insurance company, but this will not reflect on your Retired pay statement.

**Before you request an allotment, please be sure that you have enough Retired pay to fulfill the allotment amount. Avoiding this mistake will help prevent complications which could result in non-receipt of pay or in an underpayment to the allotment recipient.