Trends in VBA Disability Compensation Spending

Abstract

The National Defense Authorization Act of 2013 established the Military Compensation and Retirement Modernization Commission (MCRMC) to conduct a review of military compensation and retirement systems and to make recommendations to modernize such programs. The commission asked the Institute for Defense Analyses (IDA) to attempt to quantify the main factors contributing to the cost growth experienced by the veterans' disability compensation program and to characterize current expenditures by cohorts. This paper shows the results of IDA's analyses on veterans' disability compensation for the MCRMC.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jun 01, 2016
Accession Number
AD1015430

Entities

People

  • Brian Q. Rieksts
  • David E. Hunter
  • Kristen M. Guerrera
  • Sarah K. Burns

Organizations

  • Institute for Defense Analyses

Tags

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Agent Orange
  • Anxiety Disorders
  • Availability
  • Brain Injuries
  • Census
  • Classification
  • Compensation
  • Data Sets
  • Demographic Cohorts
  • Department Of Veterans Affairs
  • Diseases And Disorders
  • National Security
  • Second World War
  • Security
  • Traumatic Stress Disorder
  • United States
  • War

Readers

  • Defense Acquisition Program Management
  • Military Mobilization and Reserve Forces Studies.
  • Rehabilitation and Prosthetic Care for Military Service Members and Veterans with Limb Loss or Disability.