Concurrent Receipt of Military Retired Pay and Veteran Disability: Background and Issues for Congress : Congressional Research Service (CRS) , June 16 , 2025
Concurrent Receipt of Military Retired Pay and Veteran Disability: Background and Issues for Congress : Congressional Research Service (CRS) , June 16 , 2025
From the report: “Concurrent receipt is the term used to describe the simultaneous receipt of two types of federal monetary benefits. In the military context, this often describes the simultaneous receipt of military retired pay from the Department of Defense (DOD) and disability compensation from the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA). Prior to 2004, federal laws and regulations dictated that a military retiree could not receive two payments from federal agencies for the same purpose; military retired pay and VA disability compensation were considered to fall under that restriction. As a result, military retirees with physical disabilities recognized by VA had their (taxable) military retired pay offset, or reduced dollar-for-dollar, by the amount of their (nontaxable) VA compensation. Legislative activity on the issue of concurrent receipt began in the late 1980s and led to a provision for Combat-Related Special Compensation (CRSC) in the Bob Stump National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2003 (P.L. 107-314). Since then, Congress has added Concurrent Retirement and Disability Payments (CRDP) for those retirees with a disability rated at 50% or greater, extended concurrent receipt to additional eligible populations, and further refined and clarified the authorities for concurrent receipt benefits.”
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