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Concurrent receipt defeated again: proposed legislation that would have granted military retirees full payment of their pensions and VA disability compensation is defeated after negotiations. (Disabled Military Retirees).(proposed legislation: disabled military retirees)
Once again, it seems Congress has dropped the ball on disabled military retirees. Sponsored by Sen. Harry Reid (D-Nev.), the "concurrent receipt" proposal was killed during talks in the House of Representatives.
Attached to the Senate's version of the 2001 Defense Authorization Bill, the proposed legislation would have eliminated the dollar-for-dollar offset between retirement pay and VA disability compensation forced upon military retirees with service-connected disabilities. This is a choice vets have been forced to make for some 100 years now.
Reid's Armed Forces Concurrent Retirement and Disability Payment Act of 2000 (S. 2357) would have permitted …
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