If you are DOD TDRL/PDRL retired with less than 20 years of service please read.

[RonG]

This thread pertains to the Richard Starr Act. @Ageeze1030 info was moved to:

A new thread was started for you at CRSC —Am I Eligible? (Ageeze1030) <—-LINK
The current thread pertains to The Richard Starr Act.

Ron

 

[RonG]

So since I only did 13 1/2 years does that mean I’m not eligible for retirement pay I would assume?

That is incorrect.

Your questions were moved to
“A new thread was started for you at CRSC —Am I Eligible? (Ageeze1030) <—-LINK
The current thread pertains to The Richard Starr Act.”

Ron

 

[chosin132]

Any new updates to the Richard Star Act?

 

[RonG]

Any new updates to the Richard Star Act?

Not that I have heard about.

Ron

 

[TallTree]

Latest push is to attach the Major Richard Star Act to the next NDAA later this year.

Bill Allowing Disabled Veterans to Collect Full Benefits Gets New Push from Supporters on Capitol Hill | Military.com

www.military.com

I looked up the CBO's report of the bill (H.R. 1282, Major Richard Star Act), as well as the text itself (https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/house-bill/1282/text) and I keep coming across this line:

This bill would allow certain military retirees with combat-related disabilities to collect the full amount of both their military
retired pay and their veterans’ disability compensation.

For service members who retired based on disability after fewer than 20 years of service, the
CRSC payment plus any residual retirement payment (after applying the disability offset)
cannot exceed the amount of retired pay they would have received based on their years of
service. For retirees who suffered severe combat-related disabilities after a short time in the
military, that rule significantly limits the amount they receive from DoD.
H.R. 1282 would eliminate the disability offset altogether for combat-disabled military
retirees who served fewer than 20 years, allowing them to receive both the full amount of
retired pay they earned and the VA disability compensation to which they are entitled.

The way I'm reading that is if you're a medical retiree with less than 20 years of service, and have a combat related disability, then you will get the full pension PLUS the full VA disability compensation. Is that right?

I assumed it wouldn't apply to me because my MEB condition was not combat related, but I do have CRSC for tinnitis (10%) and have applied for a few others.

I know that the bill hasn't passed, and it's likely to change, and who knows what it'll say, but with the way it's written now, does it appear to apply to me and everyone else who has at least ONE CRSC condition?

 

[JMATTK]

Latest push is to attach the Major Richard Star Act to the next NDAA later this year.

Bill Allowing Disabled Veterans to Collect Full Benefits Gets New Push from Supporters on Capitol Hill | Military.com

www.military.com

I looked up the CBO's report of the bill (H.R. 1282, Major Richard Star Act), as well as the text itself (https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/house-bill/1282/text) and I keep coming across this line:


The way I'm reading that is if you're a medical retiree with less than 20 years of service, and have a combat related disability, then you will get the full pension PLUS the full VA disability compensation. Is that right?

I assumed it wouldn't apply to me because my MEB condition was not combat related, but I do have CRSC for tinnitis (10%) and have applied for a few others.

I know that the bill hasn't passed, and it's likely to change, and who knows what it'll say, but with the way it's written now, does it appear to apply to me and everyone else who has at least ONE CRSC condition?

I used to be in the camp that this would be for full pension and full disability. However, I find myself more in the camp of @Provis that when it passes it’ll be capped at longevity.

 

[Provis]

I used to be in the camp that this would be for full pension and full disability. However, I find myself more in the camp of @Provis that when it passes it’ll be capped at longevity.

I find it very hard to see any compensation law being passed that gives veterans a special compensation bonus above what they have earned. I believe it will be passed to correct an injustice for people who qualify for CRSC and still don't earn their full longevity pension + VA compensation because their CRSC % wasn't high enough to make them whole.

 

[JMATTK]

I find it very hard to see any compensation law being passed that gives veterans a special compensation bonus above what they have earned. I believe it will be passed to correct an injustice for people who qualify for CRSC and still don't earn their full longevity pension + VA compensation because their CRSC % wasn't high enough to make them whole.

I reluctantly agree now lol.