Should veterans and retirees be "Triple Dipping?"

All vets should be compensated for however they were destroyed while serving. If anyone who is found to be cheating the system should be crushed. There should be no tolerance or lenience. I know someone who was medically retired (for back problems) while attending college fill time under the degree completion program, thus incurring a 1/2 ADSO the whole time in school. Upon completing their degree, and retiring at 16 years, they started grad school and now regularly compete in marathons and CrossFit competitions.

I'm not saying they aren't injured, but I seriously question a medical evaluation enough to warrant retirement from someone that fit.

There is no one clear answer for or against, it is dependent on the context of each Veteran, their individual claim through the VA and any civilian working capabilities there after. Furthermore, if they meet the criteria to obtain SSDI along with Retiree Pension and VA Disability it should be no one else’s business or concern. Just because they receive Pension and VA disability doesn’t mean that they no longer qualify for SSDI. We have to remember the pension is for serving 20+ years, VA disability is compensation for injuries incurred during time is service, and SSDI is for when a person is unable to work due to injury (regardless of veteran status or not).

Im rated 100% from the Va, 65% from the Army, 19 and a half active yrs, 25 total for pay, on ssi... just this year started back to work, so i will be dropping the ssi...its been a long road back, to where i could go back to work (8 yrs)...

I thought triple dipping meant a military retirement, then working another 25 years, then collecting a second retirement, then collecting SSI.

This isn't easy to do, and anyone receiving it would probably give it up to have their body or mind back.

I get all three and I would rather be able to work

I’m doing it and I will take my health back anytime. Money doesn’t make up for what I lost. If you don’t like it, trade places, you might learn something....,,,,stop making assumptions.

People don’t understand what it’s like to serve. Spend a few years in the infantry, going to the field for 60 days at a time working over 12 hours a day. Being deployed, going on mission after mission, years at a time. Living in substandard conditions. Lord forbid you get hurt. I could go on and on. So, with being said, we never received comp time or overtime. But as much as we hate it, deep down we love it and we stay in. But for all we go through, we deserve something. Hey, if you could triple dip, I applaud you.

This is actually a misnomer the VA disability rating doesn't add to your retirement it replaces your retirement income with non taxable income dollar-for-dollar it's actually a better thing for retirees if they are 100% VA Disabled it takes that retirement and switches it over into something that cannot be taxed. Some states however like Texas and Florida do not tax retiree income anyway. Some people retire from the military work 20 years at another job and retire from there also and some go on and work another job when I first saw the heading that said triple dipping this is what I thought. I didn't take it as VA and Social Security and military retirement quite honestly it's just VA or military retirement and or Social Security no big deal. It's not like they're getting rich.

I have 20percent from the VA and it gets deducted from my military retirement so anybody that Uncle Sam gives this too that meets all that requirements god speed.