| USSVI Veterans News
Posting Date: 15 June, 2005 From: John Dudas Two Key Benefit Provisions Struck Two Key Benefit Provisions Struck Military.com has learned that both the provision for Full Concurrent Receipt (CR) for Unemployable (IU) 100% Disabled Military Retirees and the Reservists Pay Security Act of 2005 were struck from the Emergency Supplemental Appropriations Act of 2005 shortly before it was signed into law. The CR provision which would have eliminated the 9 year phase-in of full CR for those deemed 100% disabled due to unemployability by the VA and the Reservists Pay Security Act provision which would have provided federal employees on active duty an entitlement to a pay differential based on their federal position and their military pay are reportedly included in the House version of the National Defense Authorization Act of 2006. |