Should veterans and retirees be "Triple Dipping?"

If one is entitled to retired pay based on longevity (and reaches 60 if reserve retire) and has a VA rating of 50% or more, concurrent receipt is available but must be requested, The VA application is badly written and one can easily check the wrong box if the application will lead to 50% or better,

If one has a service issued medical retirement (active duty component retires a member based on medical), that retirement with less than 20 IS NOT AVAILABLE OF CONCURRENT RECEIPT. And, seldom is the VA equivalent more than the service retirement. None of this restricts access to VA care if desired, depending on level of percentages and service connections. (Yes, yes...,all kinds of scenarios can be thrown at this last para.)

What really kicks in nicely should one reach 100% is the dental care. I’ve had terrific success at the Seattle Center. There is also provision for dental care for those outside the mile/time of commute ranges.

In WASHINGTON STATE, 100% VA rating affords the vet free tags (no renewal required) for life and a refund of some of the regional excise taxes on the purchase of the vehicle.

I think this is the most unfair thing I know of. You work for it, you get it stolen by the government.

After I wrote that, I realized I should specify, "and it's not taxes".

Amongst all the various fucking idiots who "march on Washington" because there are really 48,976 genders or because society isn't even more skewed towards giving women everything and men nothing, and yet still allowing women to blow thier way to the top, why has there never been a march for this?

Because we are used to taking orders, not fighting authority, and, because there is a significant number of our own who maintain the belief that it is somehow cheating the system to receive both, individually earned payments, or that anyone who rates a disability is a fucking whiner.

I used to work with a retired Marine CSM who probably prayed to Chesty every night before counting bulldogs to go to sleep and dreaming of past glory. I admired the man, actually, I checked him out, his shit was real, it was 4 PH and IIRC the Silver Star. He had been at Khe San. He was, as best I could find out, a bonafide hero, no shit.

He was in his early '60's and could barely walk. I mean, he could walk and in fact run if he had to, but it was obvious it hurt him badly. The topic of disability came up. He said anyone not in a wheelchair shouldn't get one. In the discussion that followed, whiner came up a lot, as did many other pejoratives mainly of a racist nature--we are both white, and I won't repeat what he said, here, but a lot of it started with N and ended with the thought that black people work the system and he won't do that because it would make him as black as them. Really.

I lost all respect for this silly-assed reprehensible wannabe bully who no longer had the rank to make anyone listen to his stupidity.

For one thing, he made the mistake of assuming because I have a rather strong Southern accent and he knew where I was from, that I probably had at some point been a Klansman. Nope. My hatred is reserved for self-righteous bullies, in the main. Short, balding, rapidly aging idiots trying to prove how tough they still are at the expense of everyone they come into contact with who can't avoid them, specifically.

Idiots like him are why it happens. But, why do the rest of us stand for it?

I’m at 100% P&T and I’m also collecting Social Security.

“You should not make more retired than you did serving” REALLY?!??!!

If I was taking the military disability I would be making more than twice what I did serving. Drawing VA disability I’m making more than 10 times. E-5 over four. Course, that was also 50 yeas ago.

Only if I knew what benefits were available to me when I got out. Too late now for SSDI.

You will lose part are all of your retirement, if you have VA disability of less than 50%. Once you reach the 50% rating from the VA you will and can receive both full retirement and the 50% disability pay.

If you're messed up enough to be able to triple-dip there are likely to be expensive things you need just to get through the day that insurance doesn't cover.

I worked 40 yrs and all of a sudden Agent Orange hit so you say l don't get S.S.D. bull, eyes bad, 2 types of insulin, and 12 pills a day plus contance pain in legs arms, yea right give me my time in military back you can have it until then be quit, 2 times in Nam.

I retired in 1986 and my disability was taken out of my retirement and paid back through V A . I do not think that it was fair I had to pay my own disability. I worked with a vet that had the same disability and he was paid the same as me when he had only served three yes .

I served 22 years, receiving 100% VA total permanent, SSDI, and civil service retirement. quadrupedal dipping...