Senate OKs pay for Disabled Vets

Militiaman7 | 20 June 2002 | Militiaman7

[Militiaman7]

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[Militiaman7]

Please BTTT so other can read.

This is of great importance to Retired Disabled Vets.

[Andy from Beaverton]

Phew... I thought it said Senate OKs pay for Disabled Pets It wouldn't have surprised me.

[Militiaman7]

ROTFLMAO!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[RetiredArmy]

This is of importance to RETIRED military who also draw a VA disability. Current law requires that if we receive both, we must give up an amount equal of the VA disability out of our retired pay.

In example: If I receive $1,000 per month in retired pay and say I have $300 per month in disability, they reduced my retired pay down to $700 per month if I get the VA disability. Neither has anything to do with the other.

I am currently retired and draw about $334 per month in disability. They take that out of my retired pay and reduce it by that amount. Basically, what we save is the taxes due on $334 each month, which I think works out to about #20 bucks. So, I actually get $20 in disability, not the $334. Retired military are the only ones who get hit with this. If say you were in the military for 3 years, had a disability, were drawing the same $334 I am, went to work for the government for 25 years, retired, earned and started receiving a pension, then you would get your full pension and the full VA disability. Only military retirees get screwed. If this holds up, it will be a huge win for military retirees who are also drawing a VA disability.

[Militiaman7]

You are on the money. This is a huge developement for Retired DAVs. I've been working on Concurrent Receipt since I retired in 1993 and I'm not giving up till its enacted.

[Andy from Beaverton]

What's ROTFLMAO? Don't know that acronym. TFPTFR (Thanks for posting to Free Republic)

[Eagle Eye]

And from what I last read on this, W doesn't like it. Too expensive, he says.

(So take back that funding from the Dept of Education!)

[Militiaman7]

ROTFLMAO = Rolling On The Floor Laughing My A-- OFF!

[XBob]

I was Air Force, but I think this ruling may have originated with Vietnam, when numbers of Air Force generals I knew, were on extra-pay flying status, right up until they retired with disability the next day.

[RetiredArmy]

Bob, this has been in effect from way back from what I have read. Even before Vietnam. However, whichever, it is totally unfail. I know people who get their full disability and a government retirement working as GS workers. There are plenty of them here in Bremerton, Washington near the Puget Sound Naval Shipyard. And, me and other retirees have to pay our own.