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Want Concurrent Receipt Funded Many member organizations of the 31-member Military Coalition are telling lawmakers they want funding for concurrent receipt placed in the fiscal 2003 budget. A House-Senate conference committee, on December 11, voted in principle to end pay cuts for service-disabled military retirees, but it failed to appropriate funds for it. The American Legion, for instance, says "it is just not right" that military retirees with service-connected disabilities continue to have their Defense Department retired pay reduced by the amount of disability compensation that they receive from the Department of Veterans Affairs. "If these half-million veterans left the military after they incurred their service-connected disabilities, and retired from any other federal agency except a branch of the U.S. armed forces, they would receive both retired pay and disability compensation in full," said Legion commander Richard J. Santos. |
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