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DEERS/ID Cards
Why should my dependents receive and ID card?
Spouses and eligible children should be enrolled into the Defense Enrollment Eligibility Reporting System (DEERS) which can:
- Speed up authorization of Tricare during mobilization or periods of active duty of more than 30 days
- Unlimited shopping at any U.S. Military PX/BX
- Use of military services such as guest housing
- MWR discounts such as movie tickets, sporting events, outdoor rental equipment, etc.
- Armed Forces Recreations Centers worldwide (Shades of Green, Hale Koa, Dragon Hill Lodge, AFRC Europe - Garmisch & Chiemsee, Germany)
- Use of many services offered by the Fleet and Family Support Center, Saratoga Springs, NY
Who's eligible?
- Retirees, guardsmen, spouses, some former spouses (20/20/20 or 20/20/15)
- Un-remarried widow or widower
- Children at the age of 10, under the age of 21 (including adopted or stepchildren)
- Dependent children aged 21 to 23, if full-time college students
- Dependent children aged 22 – 26, if enrolled in Tricare Young Adult
- Unmarried children incapable of self-support (incapacitated)
- Elderly Parents - if you contribute 50% in the support of an elderly parent (deduction stated on tax returns)
Unit Administrators should be directing you to a DEERS/RAPIDS site near your Home of Record. Call for an appointment, any information, and documents you will need to bring.
To schedule an appointment please go to https://idco.dmdc.osd.mil/idco/locator, put in your zip code and locations and times for you to choose from will populate.
Or scan the QR code and it will take you to the link above and follow the same instructions.
If you have any questions, please call (518) 786-4406 and leave a message. You will receive a return call within 24 hours.
REMINDER: Be sure to update you and family members' eligibility information in the Defense Enrollment Eligibility Reporting System (DEERS). Sponsors and family members actually lose access to their TRICARE health care benefits when “loss of eligibility” appears in DEERS; they are unable to make appointments, get prescriptions filled, or have claims processed correctly. Action must be taken by the sponsor and his/her family members to update information in DEERS as well as in their military personnel records. Reserve Component sponsors should visit the nearest ID Card issuing facility and their unit personnel shop to ensure that their DEERS information is current and correct. For additional information about DEERS or to update an address in DEERS, visit https://www.dmdc.osd.mil/appj/dwp/index.jsp.
