Wednesday, April 22, 2009

Benefits for Retired Gulf War Veterans

There can be no more excuses for not passing full Concurrent Receipt

of Military Retired Pay!"

What I'm referring to is a law that since 2004 allows military

retirees with 20 or more years of service and a Veterans Affairs

rated disability of 50% or higher to receive their VA Disability

Compensation and their retired pay without any offsetting

deductions. Prior to that 2004 law all military retirees had their

military retired pay reduced by any amount of disability

compensation they received.

What the we has been fighting for is for any disabled

military retiree, regardless of the percentage of disability

awarded should be treated in the same manner as those in

the 50% to 100% disability range.

------------- Please Write to these Offices
http://www.va.gov/gulfwaradvisorycommittee
VA - Advisory Committee on Gulf War Veterans
Department of Veterans Affairs
Office of Policy and Planning (008A1)
810 Vermont Ave, Washington, DC 20420
202-461-5758 Lelia P. Jackson,
Policy Analyst ,lelia.jackson@va.gov

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Shannon L. Middleton at the Department of Veterans Affairs,
VA - Advisory Committee on Women Veterans(00W),
810 Vermont Avenue, NW., Washington, DC 20420.
Ms. Middleton may be contacted either by phone at (202) 461-6193,
fax at (202) 273-7092, or e-mail at 00W@mail.va.gov

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