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Financial Benefits For Combat Veterans

April 15, 2008 By admin

For many years if a veteran was in combat and returned home, they would not be able to collect military retirement pay and VA disability pay.

Collecting both was considered double dipping, and not only frowned upon it was simply illegal. Well recently Congress worked with the Veterans Administration to cut through some of the red tape. If a veteran has been in combat and wounded, then upon his separation he now qualifies for full retirement pay. This benefit is mainly accessible for career veterans with twenty years or more of service. It allows qualified military retirees that are retired and who have a related disability that was caused by combat or received in combat to receive both types of benefits.

This is a new program and it starts immediately unlike some type of programs that are phased in over a longer period of time. If a veteran is qualified and reaches retirement age, they will receive their full retirement allowances and pay, plus any disability pay they are qualified for due to a military combat related injury. The new CRST legislation that allowed for these benefits were part of the National Defense Authorization Act. This area of benefits allows for veterans who have been disabled because of: being an instrument of war, functioning or being involved in a unit engaged in or simulating war, or being actually in an armed conflict or war conflict.

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The parent branch of service that the veteran serves with has some of the discretion regarding the exact benefits and amounts that are made available to the veteran, but for the most part a veteran is qualified for full benefits under both types of funding. The specific provisions are still in flux, and may change a little bit but the new legislation promises to be a godsend for many Veterans who have been injured in combat, especially those with long military careers.

The military branch that they serve with determines the eligibility for a retiree to sign up for this program. It is nearly automatic however each branch reserves the right to make the final determination in each individual case. Eligibility is determined from those who have been deemed by the VA to be at least sixty percent disabled, and those who have served at least twenty years and eligible for military retirement.

Filed Under: Benefits, Updates

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  1. Richard L Green says

    April 15, 2010 at 5:42 pm

    Hello, I now receive benifits but it is concidered service related can i apply for C.R.S.T program

  2. Dee Thompson says

    March 6, 2012 at 2:08 am

    Can you tell me where I can find answers on retirement benefits for combat vets? Two of my brothers served in Vietnam, I’m trying to find out the requirements are and where they can more info in general? Any and all help/advice you can give me will be more than welcomed. Thanks for taking the time to read this, Dee.

  3. edmund n. marx jr. says

    June 22, 2016 at 8:00 pm

    I SERVED IN COMBATE WITH THE USMC DURING THE KOREAN WAR CAN I RECIEVE ANY BENIFITS

  4. Mike says

    November 21, 2017 at 6:13 pm

    A veteran not going through the hardships of older wars, do new veterans get the same care? Having the same feelings?

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