[advocate10]

A 19th Century law presently provides a dollar for dollar offset of military retirement pay for retirees receiving veteran's disability benifits! We need to end this enequity! Contact your congress/senate critter!

[advocate10]

Ping!

[USNA74]

The really sick thing about this inequity is if a military guy spends 5 years in the Service and suffered service-connected disability, then goes to work elsewhere in the Federal Government for their 20 years earning retirement, then they get their full retirement pay and their full disability compensation. If you spend all 20 years in the military, then you have to give up your retirement pay dollar for dollar for any disability compensation. That's just ridiculous.

[elbucko]

The history of this country and its treatment of disabled veterans is abysmal. I am not a disabled vet, but a vet nonetheless and have seen the needs of my brothers in arms.

Veterans don't have a right or entitlement to the passage of the above bill because rights and entitlements are ment to absolve those who put them in harms way. Do disabled veterans deserve the passage of this bill? They most certainly do!

[oyez]

I was retired from the Navy because of a service connected disability (53%), so the Navy paid me $ X/mo. for retirement. Later on the the VA comes along and offers me a disability payment of $ Y/mo.(which is greater than X, but the differenceof X must deducted from Y so the payment do not excede Y. If this bill passes do I get X plus Y?

[carpio]

Bush, who was too busy in the Texas National Guard to participate in the Vietnam war, has made noises that this will be vetoed because it is too expensive to implement. This issue does not effect me personally other than to offend my sense of justice but I will make three observations.

1. While I was serving in Vietnam it did not seem to me that cost was ever an issue.

2. Singling out disabled military retiree's as a group to whom we will deny the receipt of military service connected disability compensation while continueing to pay it to retired civil service workers and congressmen seems pretty rotten.

3. People should encourage their senators to override a Bush veto on this.

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Too bad the ilk of the Clinton's and their leftist party who is always advocating 'rights' does not give a rats a$$ about this.

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This issue is first and foremost.Second is a decent retirement pay and benefits so retired military don't have to hold three jobs in a household to survive.

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Let's hope and pray the military are taken care of.