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IAbout Table 24

A place for clearer answers

Table 24 exists to help veterans and military families make protection decisions with facts, context, and someone willing to stay at the table.

IIWhy Table 24 exists

The gap nobody warns you about

Military benefits are a real foundation. They are also built for a season of life that ends. Coverage changes at separation, at retirement, and again at 65, and the paperwork rarely explains what the change costs a family in practical terms.

Most people we talk to are not looking for a product. They are trying to answer a question: is what we have enough, and if it is not, what are the honest options? That question deserves a straight answer, whether or not anything is purchased at the end of it.

So the work starts with listening, then reviewing what you already hold, comparing what is actually available to you, and explaining it in plain language. You decide from there. If the right answer is to change nothing, we will tell you that too.

We learn your family first. The numbers come after. The seat stays open long past the paperwork.

IIIAccountability

Guidance built around real families

Table 24 exists because the briefing nobody gives you is the one your family needs most. What changes at separation. What happens to SGLI. Which choices are hard to reverse later. We sit down and go through it, in order, before anyone talks about a policy.

You work with a person, not a queue. That person reads what you already hold, explains the tradeoffs in plain terms, is realistic about price, understands how military transitions change coverage, and stays reachable long after the paperwork is filed.

IVValues

What we hold to

  • I

    Answers before anything else

    Nothing here depends on you deciding today. You can leave with the answer and nothing else.

  • II

    We read what you have first

    Before any recommendation, we go through the coverage already in your name. Families are often surprised by what is in there.

  • III

    Family-centered planning

    The plan is built around the household, not around a product.

  • IV

    Long-term advocacy

    Claims, changes, questions years later: the seat stays open.

  • V

    Every seat at the table counts

    Veterans, spouses, widows, caregivers, adult children. Same straight answers to all of you.

VWhy Table 24

What you can expect from us

  • I

    We speak the language

    PCS, orders, SGLI, VGLI, TRICARE, DD-214. You will not spend the first twenty minutes explaining your own life to us.

  • II

    Not owned by one carrier

    We are independent. What you see compared is the field, not a house brand with the competition left out.

  • III

    The tradeoffs get said out loud

    Cost, exclusions, what a policy will not do. Including the times the honest answer is to keep what you already have and change nothing.

  • IV

    We stay after the paperwork

    A move, a baby, a retirement, a diagnosis. Those are the moments to look again, and we are still here when they come.

VIHow it works

Six steps, no surprises

The same process whether you are twenty years from retirement or sorting out a spouse’s coverage this week.

  1. I

    Start with your situation

    Service history, family, timing, and what prompted the question.

  2. II

    Review current benefits and coverage

    What you hold today through the military, an employer, or a personal policy.

  3. III

    Identify gaps and priorities

    Where the coverage stops short of what your family would need, and what matters most.

  4. IV

    Compare appropriate options

    Real numbers, side by side, with the tradeoffs named.

  5. V

    Decide, or do not

    Changing nothing is a real option and we will say so. A decision you do not understand is not a decision.

  6. VI

    Stay connected as life changes

    A move, a birth, a retirement, a diagnosis: those are the moments to look again.

Chelsi Kania, owner of Table 24

Table 24 is independently owned by Chelsi Kania

Table 24 is an independent insurance organization. It is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, the Department of Defense, or any government agency.

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