Posted on Feb 17, 2017
Can you call yourself retired if you just got out on a medical discharge?
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There is a young cost guard female in my College that tells me she is retired after 3 years in. She sprained her ankle wile she was in and they and she gets 30% disability. I am a 100% disabled Combat Veteran and I am a little curios if she can call herself retired if she is not 100%. She is playing up her retired statice like she did something and I want to make it stop!
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This is what I pulled off the DOD website ; Disability Retirement
Disability retirement is sometimes called Chapter 61 retirement, since the law governing such a retirement is in Chapter 61 of title 10 United States Code. Members who have been determined to be unfit for duty with a disability rated by the military Service as 30% or greater are eligible for disability retirement. A member whose condition is not stable may be placed on the temporary disability retired list (TDRL) for up to five years at which point they must be either discharged, retired or returned to duty. Members whose condition has stabilized at a disability rating of 30% or higher may be placed on the permanent disability retired list (PDRL).
The basic retirement formula is:
Retired Pay Base X Multiplier %
The retired pay base for a qualified disability retirement is determined under either the final pay method or the high-36 month method depending upon when they first entered military service. See Retirement tab for details.
The multiplier percentage is at the option of the member who may chose either the percentage of disability assigned or the years of creditable service times 2½%. In either case, the multiplier is limited to 75% by law.
In the case of a member on the TDRL, the minimum percentage is 50% while on the TDRL.
Years of Service
The years of creditable service for computation of the retired pay percentage multiplier include all active duty and all credited reserve points divided by 360.
That said, tell her to show you her Blue card or dd214.
Disability retirement is sometimes called Chapter 61 retirement, since the law governing such a retirement is in Chapter 61 of title 10 United States Code. Members who have been determined to be unfit for duty with a disability rated by the military Service as 30% or greater are eligible for disability retirement. A member whose condition is not stable may be placed on the temporary disability retired list (TDRL) for up to five years at which point they must be either discharged, retired or returned to duty. Members whose condition has stabilized at a disability rating of 30% or higher may be placed on the permanent disability retired list (PDRL).
The basic retirement formula is:
Retired Pay Base X Multiplier %
The retired pay base for a qualified disability retirement is determined under either the final pay method or the high-36 month method depending upon when they first entered military service. See Retirement tab for details.
The multiplier percentage is at the option of the member who may chose either the percentage of disability assigned or the years of creditable service times 2½%. In either case, the multiplier is limited to 75% by law.
In the case of a member on the TDRL, the minimum percentage is 50% while on the TDRL.
Years of Service
The years of creditable service for computation of the retired pay percentage multiplier include all active duty and all credited reserve points divided by 360.
That said, tell her to show you her Blue card or dd214.
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PO2 Terri Myre
30% is the minimum to keep your benefits and get your blue ID card. I worked for the base PEBLO while I was going through my med board process.
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Plus on this site you have to send in retirement orders are paperwork showing retirement
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Plus also the pay from your service matter also medical Retirement are straight retirement with a Blue ID the VA also give a pink ID when you are a 100% for bases to be use so also think about that also it's depends
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It depend on having the Blue ID card I have the pink retired reserve card awaiting pay at 58 years old and 100% Combat related VA and PT also and 100% SSD so but at the in of the day the Blue ID is What matte thanks everyone for the service.
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VA disability and Army (DoD) disability aren't the same. You must have 30% or more on from the Army (DoD) in order to qualified. Otherwise, you are medically separated no retire.
"VA disability ratings are based entirely upon the severity of the injury. DoD disability ratings are given only for conditions occurring from the injury a service member is claiming, while the VA will take your entire medical condition as a whole into consideration in making a rating decision." (statesidelegal.org, 2023)
"To qualify for disability retirement, the Soldier must have completed at least 20 years of creditable service , in accordance with 10 USC 1208, or have service-connected disabilities that caused the Soldier to be unfit for duty and amount to a combined disability rating of 30 percent or more." (myarmybenefits.us.army.mil, 2023)
The basic retirement formula is:
YOS x 2 ½ % x retired base pay, OR
% of disability (not to exceed 75%) x retired pay base.
References:
DOD Disability Retired Pay. MyArmyBenefits. (n.d.). https://myarmybenefits.us.army.mil/Benefit- Library/Federal-Benefits/DoD-Disability-Retired-Pay?serv=121#:~:text=To%20qualify%20for%20disability%20retirement%2C%20the%20Soldier%20must%20be%20deemed,of%20the%20retired%20member%27s%20lifetime.
What are the major differences between DOD and VA disability benefits?. What are the Major Differences between DoD and VA Disability Benefits? | Stateside Legal. (n.d.). https://www.statesidelegal.org/what-are-major-differences-between-dod-and-va-disability-benefits#:~:text=VA%20disability%20ratings%20are%20based,in%20making%20a%20rating%20decision.
"VA disability ratings are based entirely upon the severity of the injury. DoD disability ratings are given only for conditions occurring from the injury a service member is claiming, while the VA will take your entire medical condition as a whole into consideration in making a rating decision." (statesidelegal.org, 2023)
"To qualify for disability retirement, the Soldier must have completed at least 20 years of creditable service , in accordance with 10 USC 1208, or have service-connected disabilities that caused the Soldier to be unfit for duty and amount to a combined disability rating of 30 percent or more." (myarmybenefits.us.army.mil, 2023)
The basic retirement formula is:
YOS x 2 ½ % x retired base pay, OR
% of disability (not to exceed 75%) x retired pay base.
References:
DOD Disability Retired Pay. MyArmyBenefits. (n.d.). https://myarmybenefits.us.army.mil/Benefit- Library/Federal-Benefits/DoD-Disability-Retired-Pay?serv=121#:~:text=To%20qualify%20for%20disability%20retirement%2C%20the%20Soldier%20must%20be%20deemed,of%20the%20retired%20member%27s%20lifetime.
What are the major differences between DOD and VA disability benefits?. What are the Major Differences between DoD and VA Disability Benefits? | Stateside Legal. (n.d.). https://www.statesidelegal.org/what-are-major-differences-between-dod-and-va-disability-benefits#:~:text=VA%20disability%20ratings%20are%20based,in%20making%20a%20rating%20decision.
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You can be medically retired without serving 20. The VA disability rating is relative. The Medical Retirement comes with a percentage retirement of their service base pay, which may be where the 30% comes from. If she has a DoD ID card it will show as retired if medically retired.
If you were just medically separated , then no ID card. Different than medical retirement.
If you were just medically separated , then no ID card. Different than medical retirement.
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LTC Jason Mackay
The ankle may not be the ankle. She may not be sharing the real reason because it is no one else’s business…or she is full of crap. Either way, I would not let this eat away at you.
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Does she get 30% from the Coast Guard or from the VA? If it is from the Coast Guard I wold probably agree with her. If it is from the VA, no.
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Call her out on it in front of everyone. She's NOT retired unless her DD-214 states it and she's got that sacred blue ID card in her possession. I was medically retired at my 11 year mark but had to go through a process that took about a year and a half to complete. And I wasn't retired for a sprained ankle. More like PTSD and cancer. You really should put this girl in her place. But that's just my opinion.
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