{"id":158747,"date":"2024-07-14T09:05:13","date_gmt":"2024-07-14T13:05:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=158747"},"modified":"2024-07-13T10:57:06","modified_gmt":"2024-07-13T14:57:06","slug":"disabled-veterans-calling-on-congress-to-move-on-bill-related-to-concurrent-benefits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=158747","title":{"rendered":"Disabled Veterans calling on Congress to move on bill related to concurrent benefits"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Veterans with less than 20 years of service, and having less than a 50% disability rating, are not able to receive both their military retirement and disability compensation. There is a dollar for dollar offset, reducing retirement pay by the amount of disability pay. Veterans groups are calling on Congress to get the bill moving that would resolve this issue and allow them to receive both payments.<\/p>\n

From military.com:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Right now, veterans with fewer than 20 years of service and a disability rating of less than 50% have their retirement pay reduced by a dollar for every dollar of disability pay they get.<\/p>\n

Those rules mean an estimated 50,000 retirees are ineligible for concurrent benefits. The average offset was about $1,900 per month in 2022, according to the Congressional Budget Office.<\/p>\n

The Major Richard Star Act would remove those restrictions so that all retirees with combat-related disabilities can collect their full retirement and disability benefits.<\/p>\n

The bill’s namesake was an Iraq and Afghanistan veteran who was forced to retire before 20 years of service after he was diagnosed with lung cancer he developed following burn pit exposure. Star died from cancer in 2021.<\/p>\n

The bill has more than 300 co-sponsors in the House and more than 70 in the Senate. But it remains stalled despite past efforts to build momentum, in large part because the legislation would increase what’s known as mandatory spending and congressional rules generally require any increases in mandatory spending to be balanced out elsewhere in the budget.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Additional Reading:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Khell, R. (2024, July 10). Disabled Veterans to Congress: move out on stalled bill to allow payment of both retirement and disability benefits. Military.com<\/em>. Link<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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