To: The United States House of Representatives and The United States Senate
Concurrent Receipt for Chapter 61 Veterans as promised!
Pay Disabled Veterans their retirement benefits when they are earned under a seperate retirement process, instead of taking their retirement payment back. Make Concurrent Receipt the law for all seriously disabled veterans, when they have earned a military retirement with a VA disability rating. They went through both distinct processes and earned it.
Why is this important?
There is an outstanding campaign promise with a retirement benefit that is still lacking those disabled veterans who have earned a military retirement also. Currently our military retirement has to be returned to the service of which a disabled veteran has retired, when the disability payment from the VA is greater than the retirement amount. Chapter 61 veterans have been excluded because they did not serve 20 years. How do you serve 20 years when you are seriously disabled? Going through a disability retirement process already has a time in service requirement, that has to be met. Why raise the bar on seriously disabled veterans that have gone through both profuse agonizing processes?