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Combat-injured veterans would receive full severance under legislation introduced late last week, according to Arkansas’ Sen. John Boozman, one of the bill’s backers. Boozman, R-Ark, and Sen. Mark Warner, D-Va., introduced what they call the Combat-Injured Veterans Tax Fairness Act of 2016 on Thursday. The goal is to “ensure that veterans who suffer service-ending combat-related injuries are not taxed on the severance payment they receive from the Department of Defense.” [more]
Released 3/21/16 | Tags: Congressional Legislation
A veteran and lawyer says the federal government has wrongfully and knowingly taken about $80 million from combat disabled veterans over the past 25 years, and he’s hoping to get a new law passed to fix the problem. Tom Moore, a veteran and a lawyer with the National Veterans Legal Services Program, says the money was basically stolen from about 14,000 vets. Moore says that the lump-sum severance payment for disabled combat veterans is not supposed to be taxed according to federal law, but has been since 1991. [more]
Released 3/21/16 | Tags: Congressional Legislation
U.S. Sens. Mark R. Warner (D-VA) and John Boozman (R-AR) today introduced bipartisan legislation to ensure that veterans who suffer service-ending combat-related injuries are not improperly taxed on the severance payment they receive from the Department of Defense (DoD). Under federal law, veterans who suffer combat-related injuries and who are separated from the military are not supposed to be taxed on the one-time lump sum disability severance payment they receive from DoD. [more]
Released 3/18/16 | Tags: Congressional Legislation
It probably shouldn’t take an act of Congress to get the U.S. Government to stop illegally taking money from wounded soldiers, but apparently it’s going to. A couple of U.S. senators yesterday introduced The Combat-Injured Veterans Tax Fairness Act of 2016 to force the Department of Defense to stop withholding money from severance pay to soldiers who are discharged from the military after they are wounded, and are no longer able to be soldiers, Stars and Stripes reported. [more]
Released 3/18/16 | Tags: Congressional Legislation
U.S. Sens. Mark R. Warner (D-VA) and John Boozman (R-AR) today introduced bipartisan legislation to ensure that veterans who suffer service-ending combat-related injuries are not improperly taxed on the severance payment they receive from the Department of Defense (DoD). Under federal law, veterans who suffer combat-related injuries and who are separated from the military are not supposed to be taxed on the one-time lump sum disability severance payment they receive from DoD. [more]
Released 3/17/16 | Tags: Congressional Legislation
U.S. Senators John Boozman (R-AR) and Mark Warner (D-VA) today introduced bipartisan legislation to ensure that veterans who suffer service-ending combat-related injuries are not taxed on the severance payment they receive from the Department of Defense (DOD). Under federal law, veterans who suffer combat-related injuries and who are separated from the military are not supposed to be taxed on the one-time lump sum disability severance payment they receive from DOD. [more]
Released 3/17/16 | Tags: Congressional Legislation
Lawmakers on Thursday filed legislation intended to prevent states from taxing severance pay of combat-injured veterans, which one senator claims has resulted in some $78 million improperly taken from veterans. The money being taxed is the one-time lump sum disability severance pay veterans receive from the Defense Department, a payment that is not supposed to be taxed and would not be but for a glitch with the DoD's automated payment system, according to lawmakers. "Most troubling is that we learned the government had known about this problem for decades yet continued to take this money from thousands of disabled veterans," said Tom Moore, an attorney and manager of the Lawyers Serving Warriors Project at National Veterans Legal Services Program. "The sad truth is that the government essentially stole $78 million from disabled combat veterans because of an accounting problem it's known about for years." [more]
Released 3/17/16 | Tags: Congressional Legislation
U.S. Senators Mark R. Warner (D-VA)and John Boozman(R-AR) introduced a bipartisan legislation to ensure veterans who suffer from injuries caused by combat are not improperly taxed on the payment they receive from the department of Defense (DoD) after being discharged. [more]
Released 3/17/16 | Tags: Congressional Legislation
The Pentagon has been deducting money erroneously from combat-wounded veterans’ severance pay for 25 years, an error officials knew about for years and that might have affected upwards of 13,000 troops, according to lawmakers and a veterans advocacy group. Now lawmakers are trying to return the money — estimated to be $78 million — through a bi-partisan bill introduced Thursday. [more]
Released 3/17/16 | Tags: Congressional Legislation
Richard Spataro, Director of Training and Publications at NVLSP, is quoted in this Military Times article which highlights the declining VA approval rates of disability claims for Persian Gulf War-related illnesses.
VA gets 'F' for Persian Gulf War claims approvals [more]
Released 3/16/16 | Tags: