Concurrent Reciept-2

[phuloi]

Action Alert

Take Action Against New Threat to Concurrent Receipt
Please Contact Your Representative Today!



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Opponents of concurrent receipt legislation have attacked on another front. The fiscal year 2003 appropriations bill for VA, H.R. 5605, includes a provision that would effectively block veterans from receiving both their earned military retired pay and compensation for service-connected disabilities under any new concurrent receipt legislation Congress might enact. Although both the House and Senate passed concurrent receipt provisions in their respective versions of the defense authorization bill, the Bush administration has been forcefully opposing these provisions and has held out the threat of a veto if the final legislation is sent to the President with the provisions included. Now, the VA, HUD, and Independent Agencies Subcommittee of the House Appropriations Committee has inserted provisions in its bill that would bar the Department of Veterans Affairs from deciding any claim for service connection that, if allowed, would entitle the veteran to compensation in addition to retired pay under any newly enacted concurrent receipt legislation. For example, if a veteran with 22 years of service loses both legs due to hostilities in Afghanistan, he could not have his claim for service connection acted on by VA.

We must meet this new threat with the full strength of our grassroots power. Contact your member of the House of Representatives immediately either by telephone, the prepared e-mail message below, or your own e-mail message to register your strong objections to these provisions in section 114 under title I of H.R. 5605. Ask your House member for a commitment to oppose these provisions.

[sfc_darrel]

Oh sh*t!

They not only don't want to fix it, they are trying to make it worse.