Should veterans and retirees be "Triple Dipping?"

It’s not dipping from the same jar. They are all separate. Retirement should not effect your disability!

I do understand how someone can do 20 years gather SSI benefits, and I understand how someone can be rated at 100% service connected and gather SSI benefits, but I don't understand how someone can do 20 years and get a pension and be rated 100% service connected disabled

What about cops that serve in the guard? Cops retire at 100% taxes free after 20 years on the force. If they have a disability they get ssdi. Then at sixty they get additional non tax retirement from the guard. If they where called up to active duty and received injuries then they service connected comp from VA. Then a union retirement check all tax free. Almost triple than the military vets get.

You can stand there with your healthy self and criticize all you want. I pray you don't find yourself in my situation, it will only be then you see why its important to receive these entitlements. But until then, STFU and Charlie Mike.

Concurrent reciept robbed my mother of my dead flag officer's dream home after his death from service related Vietnam era-caused, service related lymphoma. Seems all that agent orange wasn't meant to rattle around in HUMANS. Politicians get healthcare for LIFE! WTF?! You wear slashes on that cuff, are Master Blaster rated, and serve over 30 yrs if distinguished service, and what FOR?

I retired in 98 and received 50% I had all that money removed from my retirement for about 10 years or more. I am now 100% and get all three after many surgeries. I do get by though.

It's like a billionaire filling bankruptcy. If it's legal, so be it. Your just using the system for which it was designed for.

You joined and did 20. You retire. That is part of the agreement. During that 20, you pay social security. It's in your LES. you get that when you hit 65 just like every other citizen that paid into it. It is believed you can get another job when you get out at the age of 38 or a little older. If you cannot, you are disabled. Guess what? That is all three at 65. I don't have a problem with it.

For any one that actually makes it to 100% at least the ones I know would gladly give it all back to have their health.

In today's economy, military salary isn't all that great. I'm not complaining about it at all, but as a civilian, I'd expect to make quite a bit more than I made in the military, which I do. So if you legitimately can't work, I don't see the big deal getting more paid benefits than when active, because if you weren't disabled, you could very well be anyway.