- April 10, 2024
- Posted by: legaleseblogger
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## Urging Congress for Change
United States military veterans face a significant challenge when it comes to receiving their rightful benefits. One particular issue affecting over 50,000 medically retired veterans is the offsetting of their military retirement pay by VA benefits. This unfair practice leaves these veterans struggling to make ends meet, despite their years of service and sacrifice.
## The Major Richard Star Act
Introduced to address this issue, the Major Richard Star Act has gained majority support in both the House and Senate. This legislation seeks to end the offset of military retirement pay by VA benefits, providing much-needed relief to thousands of veterans. However, despite widespread support, the bill has yet to be brought to a vote.
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You’d think this year both sides would want to look good pulling this off
Please keep in mind this bill is so that only those with combat related disabilities will receive both VA disability compensation and military retired pay.
The DoD decides if a condition is combat related or not, not the VA.
With that being said, I’m all for it.
I email my congressman every day about this. It’s literally the most sponsored bill in congress yet no one will bring it to the floor for a vote. It’s *only* going to cost $9bil over 10 years. I’d say that’s pretty cheap…
I made it 18 years… so I get CRDP and 100%… would be nice to get my pension as well.
Trying to get up to speed on this.
Currently:
* SM that make it to 20-years, retire and have VA Disability get both
* SM that didn’t make it to 20-years, and are “medically retired” w/ service-related injuries get only their VA benefits
* SM that didn’t make it to 20-years, are “medically retired”, but don’t have any service-connected medical issues get bupkiss.
This bill is trying to get that second group some form of military retirement, in addition to their VA benefits, correct?
Is the intention to bring them on par with the first group?
Just got done emailing my representatives because I know it will help some, but I was wondering if I could get someone help me understand how it would affect me?
I’m 90% by ratings, but am 100% T&P due to IU.
I was medically retired at 2 days short of 18 years.
Majority of my time was in the Reserves.
It was my understanding at the time I was retired in 2019 that if I didn’t have VA Disability I would be receiving around $2800 from retirement.
I do receive CRSC and it’s about $600 a month.
So if this passed, would I get the $2800 (I know it’s more now due to time and family) and lose the $600 from CRSC, or would the CRsC payment just change its funding source?
Who all would qualify for the pension/va benefits?
What would this mean for me who is medically retired and gets VA money? I would start getting military retirement as well? It would be much since I got medically retired at 6 years
Sort of. Currently, the sponsors is hoping to receive only longevity pay and not DoD disability pay, which significantly differs. This approach is unlikely to assist a broad spectrum of individuals who sustain injuries early in their careers, including myself.
I believe it will only benefit a few veterans with limited disabilities. A proactive approach might be more effective. Personally, I sustained injuries in a helicopter crash, leading to a stroke and TBI. As a result, I developed aphasia, which impairs my ability to read, write, or speak properly (I am using ChatGPT to write this). Unfortunately, my military service comprised four years of active duty and four years in the reserve. Finding employment has been extremely difficult, and my life expectancy is significantly reduced due to these injuries.
Even though I’ve received a 100% rating from CRSC, my compensation is very low. Hopefully, there can be adjustments to ensure equal payment for service members who were injured in combat.
I support this bill 100%. I think it needs to pass. That is my unfiltered non Va opinion.
Let me guess: Mike Johnson is stalling it.
Also to add to this…There is a renewed push to get this bill past the finish line. I think we’re close… but put the pressure on their throats, email, call, social media tags. Anything you can do to contact these hooligans.
yes i emailed them often as well Iowa Chuck Grassley so far has not co-sponsered so if you live in Iowa bother the hell out of him
The wild part is that none of this still addresses [these (link)](https://www.military.com/benefits/2013/11/30/condition-not-a-disability-discharges-disputed.html) type of discharge situations – of which I am one. The Navy/Marines in particular were abusing the hell out of the discharge process to avoid giving sailors/Marines proper medical screening and benefits before separation.
Until this is forced as part of the VA benefits overhaul, this is only helping a small percentage of vets. The issue I will see on these type of issues is they all just pat a small subset of service members on the back and don’t offer a sweeping change that vets want/need to see.
Should be for all vets, not another big bill limited to “combat vets”. Just my 2 cents.
They’re probably waiting to stick some other bullshit to it to try and sneak by for a vote.
veterans should not have to pay part b penalty
This would be amazing
Also, it appears the MOAA will be advocating on the Hill again soon (April 17). You can help them by going on their website: [www.moaa.org](http://www.moaa.org/) and filling out the lawmaker message request form. The more voices, the stronger we are. Keep the fire burning!
I email my congressman and senators regularly. This one is not for me, it’s for fellow vets who earned and deserve it
the facebook group doing a lot and with a lot of updates: [https://www.facebook.com/SupportMRSA/](https://www.facebook.com/SupportMRSA/)
Now that I read this I may have to look into crsc again. I was injured in Iraq(balad/anaconda) while working my Air Force maintenance job, ended up getting medically retired due to the injury and never applied for crsc. I do get Va disability and the only question is would I be considered “combat “ since I was simply turning wrenches and delivering equipment to aircraft(including rapid response alert aircraft). If anybody has insight I would appreciate it.
In 2005 I was put out of the Army Reserves at 18.5 years after being found as “unfit for duty” due to medial issues from a VA rated 40% service rated disability (lungs and back) from a combat theater deployment to Kuwait during OIF. I was booted from medical hold in 2004 back into the reserves, even though my back was enough to find me “unfit for service” – and they claim my service-connected gulf war lung syndrome (they call it asthma) was controlled enough by medication when they sent me back to the reserves that I didn’t qualify for a partial retirement. This happened to thousands of reservists and NG members. DEERS apparently shows my both “retired active” and “retired reserve”, but I should have been medically retired. The policy at the time disagreed, but the Army changed these policies after I left service and will not consider my qualifications by modern policy.
Even with a lawyer, the process of trying to fight this has been uphill and likely to not result in anything but losing the “retired active duty” status, which has also qualified me for TRICARE. Once the PEB finally makes a decision, I can appeal twice – likely to result in nothing good for me. I will lose TRICARE, and not gain any current retirement or back pay. I can bring a federal lawsuit against the Army once the process is over, but that is also an expensive gamble.
This one bill would absolutely rectify my situation, allowing me to receive my Army retirement in 5 years when I’m eligible at 60. ONE BILL CAN FIX THIS.
This sentence though… : “ A U.S. Department of Defense spokesperson further explained in an email to Newsweek on Friday: “A veteran who retires from the military with at least 20 years of service [including disability retirees] but whose VA disability rating is 40 percent or less or veterans who are retired under the disability retirement system with fewer than 20 years of service will have their retired pay offset dollar-for-dollar by the amount of VA disability compensation they receive.”
I don’t understand what this is.
As I understand medically retired individuals must pick between pension or VA disability. So this seeks to allow them to collect both?
I believe once you are at 50% disability, they don’t deduct
I fall into that weird gray area. I received severance when I was medically discharged after 8 years of service. I had to pay back 100% via VA pay reductions over the course of 16 years. The payback included the 28% automatic tax withheld that I was never able to recoup from the IRS.
Election time. They ain’t changing shit
Unfortunately this has been around for a while, they’ve not voted for a while. Why? Because those who would benefit are a minority of the population. Unfair? Depends on what side of the coin you’re on.
I support this, I have a ton of friends who would benefit from this. But, money has to come from somewhere, that somewhere is the same place the majority of people are voting from, which is social welfare (SSI, SSDI, SSA, etc).
I wish it were black and white, this person sucks, vote for this person but that’s just not the case. Having worked on capital hill during my AD time, it opened my eyes to more than this person is a dick for not voting for xyz. XYZ actually contained all the fat like funding debatable terror organizations and all that shit.
Hard to pay for those hotels for illegal immigrants and veterans who served the country. Making those tough choices in Congress.
Explain 🤔
Now do back pay for ptsd since time ETSed! Three months before I ETSed, I went to sick call because I was depressed my first marriage failed and I couldn’t sleep (PTSD). I had zero clue what ptsd was. Then I spent almost a decade drinking myself stupid, countless thoughts of suicide, two wives, before I went and got help. 8 years my ex’s, kids, family, and I had to deal with this shit. Backdate my god damn 8 years!