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The basics of it is that you can't get paid for both on the same day. If you disability rating still allows you to serve, it is generally to your advantage to take the drill and AT pay since it will be larger in most cases. You can just join, get paid and do nothing and the VA with just take the overpayment out of your first checks in the next fiscal year. If you VA rating is 75% or more, you need to consider if it may be more since it is not taxed. You can also indicate that you want to waive pay for certain number of days using this form, which is the same form they will send you to confirm your duty days for the prior year if you didn't waive one or the other, btw. https://www.vba.va.gov/pubs/forms/VBA-21-8951-2-ARE.pdf
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CPT Lawrence Cable
Sgt Mike Snow - You don't have to do anything. If you plan on the first VA check or two of a fiscal year being used as for overpayment, you can enlist and do nothing. There isn't a penalty other than having to pay back the overpayments. You need to have your units drill schedule to fill the form out, so you probably will need to wait until you get a unit if you decide to try to waiver them throughout the year.
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CPT Lawrence Cable
LTC (Join to see) - See, even LTC's can learn something here once in awhile :^). The Army (and the VA) needs to do a better job of informing service members of their benefits and how to obtain and manage them.
Not bad for an old Captain that hasn't been S-1 for a couple of decades. But I have answered this same questions for friends and neighbors that know I served in that position for the same period.
Not bad for an old Captain that hasn't been S-1 for a couple of decades. But I have answered this same questions for friends and neighbors that know I served in that position for the same period.
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I don't know about the reserves, but I have a 60% rating and it wasn't a problem with the guard. Although your drill pay will cut into your compensation.
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The choice is yours. I've had Soldiers with 100% VA disability serve in my unit and choose just to drill for points only, toward retirement (because their VA check was greater than what they would make in a weekend). I've had others with lower disability that choose to drill for pay monthly and the VA would balance their account out at the end of the year. The VA sent a form to the command to verify how many days of duty the individual conducted.
During active duty, your disability must stop. If you deploy or volunteer for long tour orders, you would notify the VA and they put your disability check on hold until you let them know you are no longer on active duty.
During active duty, your disability must stop. If you deploy or volunteer for long tour orders, you would notify the VA and they put your disability check on hold until you let them know you are no longer on active duty.
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LTC (Join to see)
The VA disability at 100% is still only around $100 a day. Unless they were very low ranking they were probably doing it wrong.
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