Posted on Oct 26, 2014
No disability pay until separations pay is recouped?
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I got my disability determination in the mail on Friday. It isn't much (20%), but the money would help a lot as I am currently STILL unemployed. The letter stated that I would not receive payment until my separation pay is recouped. This means I will see no check until 2017. This doesn't seem right at all to me and I have no idea where to begin to check this out. I don't understand what my last check from the Marine Corps has to do with the VA or a meager disability rating. Can RP help me understand what is happening and if this sounds right? I have never heard of this before.
MSG Wade Huffman , SSG V. Michelle Woods
MSG Wade Huffman , SSG V. Michelle Woods
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The letter is correct. If you receive separation pay from the service, then your VA payments are 'recouped' until the two are offset. I understand that it doesn't seem right, like many other things, but there is no way around it. Sorry I can't give you better news than that.
This should have been explained during your TAP classes and again by whoever assisted you in fling your claim.
This should have been explained during your TAP classes and again by whoever assisted you in fling your claim.
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It didn't make sense to me at first either. The VA rep explained to me that the separation pay was in fact an "advance" on disability pay. I still said hogwash, but they've covered their bases.
Now if they could only put as much effort into caring for veterans as they've put into doing as little as possible... (At least that's the way it seems to me.)
Now if they could only put as much effort into caring for veterans as they've put into doing as little as possible... (At least that's the way it seems to me.)
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Sgt Jennifer Mohler, was your severance pay considered 'disability severance pay' ?
To read more about it:
Go to the link below:
http://www.benefits....MS/M21_1MR3.asp
Scroll down to :
Chapter 4 - Elections, Waivers, and Recoupments
Click on:
Section B
- Recoupment of Readjustment, Separation, and Severance Pay
DFAS Q&A:
http://www.dfas.mil/retiredmilitary/newsevents/news/separationrecoupmentfaqs.html
To read more about it:
Go to the link below:
http://www.benefits....MS/M21_1MR3.asp
Scroll down to :
Chapter 4 - Elections, Waivers, and Recoupments
Click on:
Section B
- Recoupment of Readjustment, Separation, and Severance Pay
DFAS Q&A:
http://www.dfas.mil/retiredmilitary/newsevents/news/separationrecoupmentfaqs.html
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