This monthly enrollment feature is in contrast to the other types of pre-tax benefits, like health care flexible spending accounts, which limit your ability to sign-up to just once a year during open enrollment period or when you experience a qualifying life event, such as the birth of a child.
But it is heaven for the young and flexible: help-wanted signs usually impose an upper age limit of 30, and the shift to free enterprise has put a premium on educated newcomers who do not have to unlearn the bad old ways.
Though a more strategic, anticipatory approach to security sector assistance should limit this requirement, the United States should have the ability to allocate flexible security sector assistance to respond to short-notice requirements.