Disabled Veterans' Tax Information

Retired Pay Restoration Act of 2003 H.R. 303 Filed 1/8/2003 S. 392 Filed 2/13/2003 *382 Co-Sponsors as of December 30, 2004 69 Co-Sponsors** * 383 are listed, but Stephanie Herseth (D-SD) replaced William Janklow (R-SD) after he went to jail. Discharge Petition for H.R. 303: 4 Republican, 1 Independent, 202 Democrat Signers Retired Pay Restoration Act of 2005 H.R. 303 Filed 2/18/2005 S. 558 Filed 3/8/2005 240 Co-Sponsors as of December 31, 2006 36 Co-Sponsors Discharge Petition for H.R. 303: 0 Republican, 1 Independent, 190 Democrat Signers Retired Pay Restoration Act of 2007 H.R. 303 Filed 1/5/2007 S. 439 Filed 1/31/2007 174 Co-Sponsors as of 06/12/08 31 Co-Sponsors On November 24, 2003, the President signed the National Defense Authorization Act for FY 2004, containing a provision to grant restoration of Retired Pay to Military Retirees rated 50% or more disabled by the VA. Restoration will take place over a ten-year phase-in period beginning in January 2004. Use the MS Excel Spreadsheets below to compute the amounts restored. Compute restored Retired Pay at original rates (as of January 2004) Compute restored Retired Pay assuming 2.7% COLA increase each year after latest known COLA increase *Now, we must get restoration for those retirees rated from 10% to 40% and eliminate the phase-in period.*
Uniformed Services Disabled Retirees White Paper Letter to the Editor - Restoration of Retired Pay Flyer - Help Disabled Veterans Comments by candidate and President George W. Bush History of the Military Disability/Retired Pay Offset Flyer For Potential Military Recruits (MS Word document) Military Retirement Accrual Funding (This is an Adobe PDF File and is quite large, 3.4MB. You will need Acrobat Reader, and it will take a while to download.) Broken Crutch Award Certificate (MS Word document) Military Retirees Receiving VA Compensation by Degree of Disability & Monthly Dollar Award as of March 2003 John Youmans - Military Retirement Trust Fund Looted Veterans Disability Benefits Commission (VDBC) Report		House Veterans' Affairs Committee Senate Veterans' Affairs Committee House Armed Services Committee Senate Armed Services Committee CRS Military Retirement Brief Senate/Congressional Votes on DAV Issues 2004 Senate/Congressional Votes on DAV Issues 2005 DoD Military Retirement Fund Extract from DoD Budget - 2002 Eddie Smith - Disabled Veterans Tax Point Paper Letter to President from 52 Retired Generals (MS Word document) Letter to President from 401 General & Flag Officers
	Tennessee Disabled Veterans Grassroots Group
Do NOT accept less than FULL restoration of EARNED Retired Pay for ALL disabled military retirees. ONLY FULL REPEAL of the Disabled Veterans Tax for ALL disabled military retirees is acceptable. We have waited TOO LONG to give in and quit now!
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