Military Retirement: Major Legislative Issues

Abstract

The military retirement system includes benefits for retirement after an active or reserve military career, disability retirement, and survivor benefits for eligible survivors of deceased retirees. The proposed change to the system that has generated the most recent legislative activity involves whether some or all military retirees should be allowed to receive both military retired pay and any VA disability compensation to which they are otherwise entitled; this is referred to as "concurrent receipt." Until now, the law provided that military retired pay had be reduced by the amount of VA disability compensation. Some maintained this was inequitable and unfair; it was defended on grounds of cost and of the need to avoid setting a precedent for concurrent receipt of numerous other federal benefits. DOD has estimated that up to 700,000 military retirees (out of a total of 1.7 million) would be eligible for unrestricted concurrent receipt if enacted.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jan 05, 2004
Accession Number
ADA435705

Entities

People

  • Robert L. Goldich

Organizations

  • Defense Acquisition University

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Biomedical

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Accounting
  • Active Duty
  • Department Of Defense
  • Federal Budgets
  • Governments
  • Law
  • Military Personnel
  • Military Science
  • Military Training
  • National Governments
  • National Security
  • Personnel Management
  • President (United States)
  • Security
  • Training
  • United States
  • United States Government

Readers

  • Government and Public Administration Law.
  • Military Mobilization and Reserve Forces Studies.