|
|
ARMED FORCES NEWS
|
|
The Senate and the House left for the elections without passing a fiscal '03 Defense authorization act, thus delaying a decision on concurrent receipt until either a lame duck session or even until next year. During the deliberations, various plans surfaced for partial and full concurrent receipt, and even for concurrent receipt only for military retirees currently awarded disability (see following item). But opposition from the administration has created a situation in which 83 percent of the Senators and 90 percent of the Representatives have signed their names in support of concurrent receipt, but failed to take action. Veterans organizations individual veterans have expressed outrage. Concurrent receipt would eliminate the 100-year-old inequity of forcing military retirees to forfeit one dollar of retirement pay for each dollar of disability compensation awarded by the VA. |
|
