Should veterans and retirees be "Triple Dipping?"

These are not entitlements, these are earned benefits. There should be no shame in your game about those who are envious of what you are receiving. They would have had the same opportunity had they put that life on the line for our great nation. To hell with all of the haters.

"FOR" US Coast Guard Combat wounded, WIA 69, served 66-70, Vietnam 68-69, VACP SMC-L1 with Aid & Attendance, 100% Disabled, most disabilities Agent Orange related.

If a person serves for 20 years or more, they get 100 percent of the retirement they are eligible for (50% @ 20 yrs, 75% @ 30 yrs.) They pay taxes on that money. A person who is a veteran with a service connected disability draws every dime of their tax free disability payments even if they only served a partial enlistment.
I served 20 years 10 months. My 30% nontaxable disability payment is subtracted from my retirement money. In other words, 70% of my retirement income is taxed and 30% is not. Why are people like me penalized? Shouldn't I get 100% of my retirement and my 30% disability?

I'm a retired Army Reservist. My 10% VA disability is deducted from my military retirement pay. I've heard that retired Active Duty personnel who have VA disability. The disability isn't deducted from their retirement pay. Does anyone know the truth?? Thanks.

Civilians hurt on the job are entitled to Workman's Compensation evaluation of benefit. How many of them are hurt by IEDs or RPGs? I am a 22 year retired Lt.Col and former enlisted, with a 50% VA disability for spinal surgery. I only asked for what the system allowed, and I do not feel guilty about it.

Disagree if you served and was injured especially if it occurred in combat zone you should be able to draw both. If your being treated and retired what’s the issue

How does one "triple dip"? I know double dipping is when you're retired from the military, get a DOD job for 20 or more years then draw retirement from that too. But if you mean military retirement, civilian retirement and drawing VA compensation, then I guess that's triple dipping. Remember retirement is only 50% of your active duty/civilian job pay and VA compensation is what the VA voodoo man thinks you were injuryed enough for.

Are we talking CRDP, or SSN?

If you worked and put into all systems than yes, I am not military retired but I am a Contaminated Veteran from TCE/PCE and I also worked and paid taxes in private sector, so I earned disability by being contaminated, and earned SS by working sick all my life since service and on average contaminated Veterans will die 29 years early. Not to mention we live from early age depending on when the military poisoned us, from that point are organs start breaking down like liver first, then Kidney's, stomach, etc...TCE has been found to be carcinogen, and causes autoimmune conditions, I have a list of 50 things wrong mostly due to TCE causing rare disease Sceroloderma. But we used it to clean weapons and equipment in service for decades, and it got into the water sources, by time I got in, it was highly toxic water and we would exercise and come back to barracks and drink poison by the gallon. See Ronald Reagan and Super fund sites, but we continued to us it why we spent billions to clean it up??? So yes I earned that, and my benefits by hard years of labor.

Why shouldn't I get my active duty retirement (less than half of what I made), my VA stipend (only 30% rated), then my Social Security? I've been paying into Social Security since I was 13 (paper route, and yes it's on my SS benefit printout); I served over 33 years in uniform, and just because my injuries and issues aren't combat-caused or combat-related doesn't mean they weren't caused by my military service. How is it that a Congressman/Senator, on a $180,000.00 per year salary, can be a multi-millionaire?