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Defense Enrollment Eligibility Reporting System
Line-of-Duty Care

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TRICARE Eligibility

           
Defense Enrollment Eligibility Reporting System

Your Service personnel office is responsible for establishing your eligibility for TRICARE and recording it in the Defense Enrollment Eligibility Reporting System (DEERS). In addition to TRICARE eligibility information, your DEERS record also has your residential address, telephone number, family members, and other information. To remain eligible for TRICARE, you must keep your information and your family’s information in DEERS up to date.

Humana Military cannot update your DEERS information. Family members can update addresses, phone numbers, and other personal information, but only you, the sponsor, can add or delete a family member from DEERS.

Always update DEERS information whenever you are activated or deactivated, have changes in your family composition (e.g., marriage, divorce, or birth), travel for more than 30 days, or move.

You may update DEERS in the following ways:
 
  • Visit the nearest uniformed services identification (ID) card-issuing facility. Locate the nearest office online.
  • Call 1-800-538-9552, or call 1-866-363-2883 (TTY/TDD) if you are hearing impaired.
  • Fax address changes to 1-831-655-8317.
  • Make address changes online at the TRICARE web site.
  • Mail your new information to:

Defense Manpower Data Center Support Office
Attn: COA
400 Gigling Road
Seaside, CA 93955-6771


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Line-of-Duty Care
You are covered for any documented service-related injury, illness, or disease you incur or aggravate in the line of duty. This includes inactive duty training (drill) and funeral honors duty. You are covered during travel directly to and from the place of duty and during the time you spend overnight in the vicinity between successive periods of inactive duty.
 


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Created: September 21, 2007