{"id":39352,"date":"2014-01-17T09:29:37","date_gmt":"2014-01-17T14:29:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=39352"},"modified":"2014-01-17T09:32:40","modified_gmt":"2014-01-17T14:32:40","slug":"ayotte-cola-hits-widows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=39352","title":{"rendered":"Ayotte: COLA cuts hit widows, too"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New Hampshire Republican <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ayotte.senate.gov\/?p=press_release&#038;id=1224\">Senator Kelly Ayotte<\/a> received confirmation from the Pentagon that the cuts to cost of living allowances includes recipients of the Survivor Benefit program &#8211; you know that thing that you take a reduction from your military to pay your spouse if you give up the ghost before him or her &#8211; you know, that you pay for because you intend for them to have a means to live after they sacrificed for your military career.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;The more I press the Pentagon for answers, the more I learn how egregious the military benefit cuts are in the budget deal. The cost of living adjustment cuts unfairly shortchange military retirees, military survivors, and the combat-injured to pay for more Washington spending,&#8221; said Senator Ayotte, a member of the Armed Services Committee. &#8220;Those who have kept us safe and taken bullets for us shouldn&#8217;t be singled out to sacrifice even more, and these cuts should never have been put in the budget agreement or passed by Congress. I am continuing my efforts to immediately right this wrong and to ensure our military retirees, survivors, and combat-wounded receive the full benefits they&#8217;ve earned.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Based on Senator Ayotte&#8217;s questions, the Defense Department has confirmed that the CRDP, CRSC, and SBP programs are affected by the annual COLA reduction. The DoD response said, &#8220;The reduction can be greatest for disability retirees since many begin receiving retired pay well before the usual military retirement age.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I wonder if the Pentagon will be sending out it&#8217;s agents to snatch candy from the mouths of babies, too. Thanks to ROS for the link.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Hampshire Republican Senator Kelly Ayotte received confirmation from the Pentagon that the cuts to cost &hellip; <a title=\"Ayotte: COLA cuts hit widows, too\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=39352\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Ayotte: COLA cuts hit widows, too<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[118],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39352","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-veterans-issues"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39352","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=39352"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39352\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39352"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39352"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39352"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}