a lot of resources for Veterans & Military members
http://tinyurl.com/73rhyh
http://www.disabilityinfo.gov/digov-public/public/DisplayPage.do?parentFolderId=156
http://www.defenselink.mil/prhome/docs/CRSC_Info_Paper_May_08.pdf
http://www.defenselink.mil/prhome/docs/DoD_Concurrent_Receipt_Programs_May_2008.pdf
Concurrent Receipt Programs
Concurrent Retirement & Disability Payments (CRDP)
Combat-Related Special Compensation (CRSC)
The Department of Defense (DoD) is, and has been, making extra payments to retirees to
overcome some or all the offset from retired pay associated with receipt of disability
compensation from the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA). Retirees cannot receive benefits
simultaneously under both of these programs. The programs are:
Concurrent Retirement and Disability Payment (CRDP): This program provides a
10-year phase-out of the offset to military retired pay due to receipt of VA disability compensation.
Qualified individuals are those who are retired active or age 60 retired reserve members who also
have a combined VA disability rating of 50% or greater. Members retired under military disability
provisions (Chapter 61 to title 10 United States Code) must have at least 20 years of service.
Today, more than 275,000 retirees are receiving CRDP payments of over $241 million per month.
Effective January 1, 2004: Initial entitlement under the program began on January 1, 2004.
Payments were made to nearly 150,000 qualified retirees on February 2, 2004.
Effective January 1, 2005: The 10-year phase-out was eliminated for those individuals
actually rated 100% disabled by the VA and they became eligible to receive all of their
formerly offset military retired pay.
Effective October 1, 2008: The 10-year phase-out will be eliminated for those individuals
not rated 100% disabled by VA, but who are paid at the 100% level as "Individual
Unemployables" (IUs), and they become eligible to receive all of their formerly offset military
retired pay retroactive to January 1, 2005.
Friday, January 16, 2009
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