Many members of the United States Military serve with pride, and occasionally a Servicemember will be wounded in the course of their military service. There are programs that exist to support veterans that have been wounded in action or injured while serving in the military. It is specifically designed to help compensate our heroes returning from duty that have given faithful service but who have encountered wounds during their service. The Combat Veterans Wounded Compensation support program gives the veteran the opportunity to collect full military retirement pay, while still claiming full Veterans benefits.
It is called the Combat Veterans Compensation Benefit program. The compensation under the program is two fold, both treatment and medical care for their wounds, and financial compensation allowing the Veteran to receive additional funds to help compensate for their service. This is a new program for the Armed Forces, and it is one that gives an additional avenue of financial support for Servicemembers who have served with distinction and honor.
Veterans who have been disabled or experienced serious injury as a result of: serving in a combat area on active duty and being injured, being involved in a unit in physical war or simulated war battlefield conditions. In 2004 Congress realized that this was not giving our brave veterans enough financial support to accomplish their rehabilitation and quality of life goals. To be eligible for this program you have to be at least 60 percent disabled, receiving veterans compensation of some type and have been disabled because of a combat related injury or service related injury. It eliminates the need for veterans to choose between one and the other, which was what was necessary before. It features a number of elements that are supportive of veterans and their situations where they have incurred injuries while serving on Active Duty. Congress worked to change the law and provided the Combat Veterans Compensation program allowing wounded vets the ability to collect both types of benefits. If the injured Servicemember reaches the age of retirement then they instantly become eligible for the program and are able to utilize full retirement benefits as well as their disability benefits.
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By changing the law, Congress made the program accessible to more people and more Servicemembers to access. It used to be that this was not possible, that a veteran had to choose from one or the other type of benefits. But then Congress worked to change the legal and financial benefits for Servicemembers.