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Jane I thought we'd start off today talking about the survivor benefit plan since that's one of our regular topics you know it seems to me that it's a pretty straightforward plan but there's always a lot of questions and confusion about it and I think one of the reasons is the Social Security offset that you should be applied to SBP still has people puzzled but what do you think about the survivor benefit plan I agree there is a lot of confusion out there there's no doubt about that and a part of it tends to always be around how much money that thing's gonna cost and what kind of benefit you get out of it and that Social Security part is a part of why there's a lot of confusion out there because that doesn't exist anymore so now it's just a matter of visit the right plan for you or not well what kind of things go into that question I remember when I went had to make this decision one of the folks that I spoke to said well you know your wife went through this military career with you an