Service members will be enrolled in a new program Dec. 1 that will expand benefits provided through Servicemembers’ Group Life Insurance. The new traumatic SGLI coverage provides payouts of up to $100,000 for veterans with traumatic injuries. Benefits will be retroactive to Oct. 7, 2001, for members who have lost limbs, eyesight or speech or received other traumatic injuries as a direct result of operations Iraqi Freedom or Enduring Freedom, Department of Veterans Affairs officials said. Veterans suffering from disease are not covered. The traumatic SGLI benefit will be rolled into the basic SGLI program at a cost of $1 a month, said Stephen Wurtz, the VA’s deputy assistant director for insurance. Service members cannot decline TSGLI unless they also decline basic SGLI coverage, VA officials said.