Should veterans and retirees be "Triple Dipping?"

If youve spent 20 years in you fully deserve to get the pension. Its kinda a miserable way to go if you are in constant pain.

I feel that a VA rating should be to compensate a vet for WHATEVER disability he has that was determined to be service related, and that compensation should be given ON TOP of everything else (i.e. drill pay, retirement pay, etc.).

How is it triple dipping if this is what is allowed by law?

Actually, come to think of it, let's apply basic economics to the issue:

If you were to ask any of these triple-dippers if they would gladly give up all of their "extra" income just to be back down to 30% disability, I'm pretty sure each and every one would take that in a heartbeat. That tells me, far from abusing the situation, they are grossly underpaid for what they have lost.

There is a cost to going to war - or just maintaining a fighting force, and our leaders are unwilling to fund it.

Why not? For your retirement pay and social security, that's deferred compensation. For disability, that's compensation for something lost.

I retired as an E-7, with 20 percent disability. I get my retirement pay, and I get Retirement from OPM for working 21 years for the Postal Service. I am also getting social Security. If that is triple dipping, then I am guilty as charged. I have many medical problems that the VA refuses to consider as service connected. I feel that I earned every cent I am receiving for my retirement.

You paid the price. You should receive what you paid for. Same goes for Civil Service employees that also paid into Social Security. You earned it, you should get it. Liberals want to deprive the earners and reward the nonproductive.

How come illegal immigrants receive more benefits than vetrans

Hey, we have 535 mopes in Congress that does it, but then again, they make their own rules.

I retired as an E-7 with 37 years of service with 6 years active 32 years Guard With 30 years civil service (guard) and got 70% from the VA because of Agent Orange. My Social Security was cut by 3/4 because of the Civil Service and 1 year off the civil service because I was deployed (at 54 years old)for a year just before I could retire and would not have time to buy it back. Out of 1100 a month SS I get $209.00 With out the VA Disability I would be broke. Oh yeah I went to Vietnam 3 times.