Posted on 01/02/2016 11:11:53 AM PST by SandRat
In a hopeful sign for 60,000 military widows and widowers who lost spouses to service-connected illnesses or injuries, a key House subcommittee is taking a fresh look at how Congress might allow a further easing the “SBP-DIC offset†to provide heartier and fairer survivor benefit packages.
Rep. Joe Heck (R-Nev.), chairman of the House armed services subcommittee on military personnel, isn’t promising yet specific relief from the offset, which surviving spouses prefer to call the military widows’ tax.
But Heck and colleagues did gather anew complaints about the offset during a special December hearing, and vowed to look for ways to end it, or at least to continue to dull its effect on the widows’ financial health.
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Can someone explain this to me? Why would any comp to fallen service people be “adjusted” for their widows/widowers?
There are several programs, and if benefits are received from one, it lessens benefits from the other(s).
I searched the gov’t info on this , and it is real confusing.
If it is up to the VA, you can bet they are doing our Vets wrong under this admin.
Typical, this administration bends over backwards to reward illegal invaders while working extra hard to find ways to screw over our military and their families.
It’s cyclical, whenever the sleazebag dems get the presidency the first thing they do is cripple our military by cutting back on equipment and personnel. Then they attack the soldiers benefits so as to make service so onerous to their families that they further weaken the military through depression and attrition.They do this because they hate our military and as a method to make their budgets look better by reducing costs at the risk of our security.
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