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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 Major Richard Star Act would eliminate the statutory “offset” that reduces military retired pay when a retiree also receives Department of Veterans Affairs disability compensation, extending full ...
The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) scored the Major Richard Star Act as extending concurrent receipt to roughly 52,000 combat‑injured veterans who currently lose part of their military retirement p...
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 publicly available reporting in the provided sources does not offer a single, authoritative, up‑to‑date figure that isolates how many (medical) retirees are currently receiving Combat‑Related Spec...
Recent congressional proposals seek either to expand or, in some policy analyses, roll back —the ability of military retirees to receive both retirement pay and disability compensation—by extending el...