{"id":37909,"date":"2013-10-09T16:15:33","date_gmt":"2013-10-09T20:15:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=37909"},"modified":"2013-10-09T18:26:04","modified_gmt":"2013-10-09T22:26:04","slug":"gop-claims-that-pay-our-military-act-of-2013-pays-death-benefit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=37909","title":{"rendered":"GOP claims that Pay Our Military Act of 2013 pays death benefit"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Washington Times<\/a> reports that members of Congress claim that their Pay Our Military Act of 2013 that they passed earlier this week does indeed cover payment of the death benefit for the military and that the Secretary of Defense, Chuck Hagel is the fellow withholding funds from bereaved families;<\/p>\n

Congressional Republicans say the Pay Our Military Act, passed by Congress and signed by Mr. Obama on Sept. 30, authorizes such payments. The act states that it is authorizing \u201csuch sums as are necessary to provide pay and allowances to members of the armed forces.\u201d<\/p>\n

And the death gratuity is listed on the Pentagon\u2019s official list \u2014 \u201cPays and Allowances Summary.\u201d<\/p>\n

Rep. Joe Wilson, South Carolina Republican, has sent a letter to Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel. The letter contains the Pentagon\u2019s official lists of pays and allowances, and asks the secretary what other benefits he plans to deny service members in addition to the death gratuity.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Here’s the bill<\/a> as it was signed if you’re interested. It does say that;<\/p>\n

There are hereby appropriated for fiscal year 2014, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for any period during which interim or full-year appropriations for fiscal year 2014 are not in effect–<\/p>\n

(1) such sums as are necessary to provide pay and allowances to members of the Armed Forces (as defined in section 101(a)(4) of title 10, United States Code), including reserve components thereof, who perform active service during such period;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

So if the death benefit appears on the DoD’s Pays and Allowances Summary<\/a> (I can’t find it so I’m not sure)<\/del>, it appears that it’s one of those things that Hagel decided would bring pain to a small number of people and they thought they could get away with it. <\/p>\n

This from Fox News<\/a>;<\/p>\n

The House voted Wednesday afternoon to restore the $100,000 payments. But in a rapid turn of events, the Pentagon announced minutes later that it had entered into an agreement with the non-profit Fisher House Foundation to keep the payments flowing to families — without the need for congressional action. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

So, the administration appears to have fixed a problem that they themselves created, and they hoodwinked Fisher House into funding it for them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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