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would expand who can receive of military retired pay and disability compensation by removing the long-standing “offset” for a new group: veterans with combat-related disabilities who currently get ) b...
The claim that President Trump announced a $1,776 “Warrior Dividend” for roughly 1.45 million U.S. service members has been widely reported and linked in those reports to tariff receipts and to recent...
The December 17, 2025 speech by President Donald Trump announced an intent to deliver a one‑time $1,776 “Warrior Dividend” to many service members, but multiple contemporaneous reports and guidance no...
Recent 2025 policy activity leaves concurrent receipt — the ability to collect both DoD retirement pay and VA disability compensation — largely governed by existing programs CRDP and CRSC, which conti...
Combat-Related Special Compensation (CRSC) and under law (commonly delivered as Concurrent Retirement and Disability Pay, CRDP) are distinct statutory mechanisms that both address the historic “ waive...
Switching from CRSC (tax‑free special compensation) to CRDP (taxable restoration of retired pay) changes the tax character of retired income and can alter liability, refunds, and effective marginal ra...
The VA offset (often called the retired-pay offset or “VA disability offset”) still reduces military retired pay dollar-for-dollar by the amount of VA disability compensation for certain categories of...
Full concurrent receipt for some retired service members has been law for years, but there is not a blanket, across-the-board end to offsets for all retirees after 2025; eligibility remains governed b...
The pay that National Guard soldiers receive is governed primarily by that apply across the Guard and Reserve, but significant additional variation arises when members serve under , where states indep...
administers the annual / "open season" by notifying eligible retirees (typically via a December mailing), accepting elections during the open season that normally occurs in January, and coordinating w...
When Combat-Related Special Compensation () replaces Concurrent Retirement and Disability Pay (), the tax landscape can change because CRDP is taxable and CRSC is not; official and practitioner source...
payroll delays have repeatedly pushed retroactive wage‑grade () increases and shutdown backpay into later pay cycles, leaving many wage‑grade employees waiting months for raises that are retroactive t...
Combat-Related Special Compensation (CRSC) and Concurrent Retirement and Disability Pay (CRDP) are two separate federal programs that let eligible military retirees receive both VA disability compensa...
President Trump publicly announced and promoted the $1,776 “warrior dividend” in a prime‑time address, and the administration says the payment is being delivered by rebranding a congressionally‑approv...
Federal law and service rules allow recall of retired and Reserve personnel, but procedures and common practices vary by branch and by whether a retiree is from the Regular (active) component, Reserve...
Two ways to recover retired pay that was reduced because of disability exist: restores the withheld retired pay but is , while CRSC replaces the withheld portion with a tax‑free special compensation f...
Combat-Related Special Compensation (CRSC) is a tax-free program that restores retired pay offset by VA disability compensation for veterans with combat-related disabilities; applications are made to ...
Retirees can be returned to active duty under federal authority (Title 10) for specific needs; many recalls are voluntary and short-term but involuntary recall and court-martial recall powers also exi...
The available analyses show , but they do indicate distinct pay categories and allowances that can change with status and location, such as Operational Deployment Pay (ODP), Basic Allowance for Housin...
The core finding is that , because Guard compensation is structured around drill/part‑time service, state pay supplements, and deployment status rather than continuous active‑duty base pay . Public sa...