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Under the original Combat-Related Special Compensation law, effective June 1, 2003, retirees with 10% or more VA disability compensation resulting in a Purple Heart, and those with at least 60% disability because of combat or combat-related causes, were eligible for CRSC. (Almost all Guard and Reserves were excluded.) Under those provisions, up to 40,000 disabled retirees have applied and only about 10,000 have been processed. On Jan. 1, 2004, military retirees, including Guard and Reserves, with combat and certain combat-related disabilities rated 10 percent or higher are eligible to apply for CRSC. By some estimates, as many as 100,000 may apply under the new provisions. Regardless of backlogs, pay for retirees approved will be retroactive to June 1, 2003 for the original CRSC and Jan. 1, 2004 for the expanded program. |
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