Eliminate Concurrent Receipt of Retirement Pay and Disability Compensation for Disabled Veterans

I always considered retired pay as "compensation for service" and disability payments as restitution for lost future income based on inability or reduced capacity to perform certain functions. I don't see them as being "compensated twice for their service" as the budget control "option" claims.

You could just as easily claim that the retirement check itself compensates the member "twice for their service" since they got paid WHILE they were serving, and now get compensated again for that same service. Unfortunately, there are those in Congress and the current administration that would try to pick up THAT ball and run with it as well.

I will wait and see what President Trump and his VA pick decide. Many retirees and I voted in the effort to make America Great Again. Privatization and elimination of concurrent receipt is his choice. if you voted for him then support him. The current VA expenditure is unsustainable. I work with quite a few never deployed, non combat experienced veterans who are in their 20's collecting pensions. I also know a few retirees collecting retirement and 100% disability for issues like PTSD while working as a high paid contractor in that very same war zone, doing the same job (spending weekends partying in Thailand). Thats whats wrong with the VA.. No oversight. The sick-call malingerers getting paid for the rest of their life. I believe in reviewing all cases again, eliminating concurrent receipt for the majority of non combat disabilities and paying for treatment as opposed to pensions for the majority of cases. These Vets need jobs. Not handouts. I am reminded of that when I meet an amputee rated at 60% looking for employment.

Had not seeen this, and I sincerely hope it had no serious traction. The retirement pension and disability pay are two distinct and very separate programs. They do not compensate a service member twice for the same service, and the notion that it does is ludicrous.