Throughout our nation’s history we have witnessed countless examples of how quickly our troops will respond whenever and wherever they are needed. The willingness of American forces to go in harms way ...

As reported here last week, President Obama has asked Congress to phase in "concurrent receipt" for those who received a disability retirement from the Department of Defense. This week we explain more ...

With the full-throated support of numerous national veterans-service organizations, lawmakers are introducing bills in the 118th Congress to fully repeal the offset of military retired pay for every ...

Readers of Tom Philpott's Military Update Column Sound Off Can you tell me if Congress has lifted the ban on concurrent receipt of both disability pay and retirement for veterans retired because of ...

Philpott’s Forum presents questions, opinions and insights from readers of Tom Philpott’s Military Update news column. The following are readers comments and questions concerning retirement benefits, ...

Congress is considering modifying the concurrent receipt rule that adversely affects the compensation of medically retired veterans. Currently, medically retired servicemembers with fewer than 20 ...

The Obama administration is taking steps to reconcile ambitious campaign promises with real world budget challenges on two key issues for veterans: advance funding for VA health care and expansion of ...

I believe all the veteran service organizations are very concerned about concurrent receipt. From largest like the American Legion to one of the smaller like the Catholic War Veterans most of all the ...

During 22 years of Army and Air Force service, Robert Maher, Sr., 78, of Gig Harbor, Wash., suffered a series of injuries that, in recounting, sound like a history lesson. Before World War II, he ...

Major veterans organizations expressed outrage at House Republican leaders for a proposal floated Sept. 5 that would restore full retired pay for 710,000 retirees drawing VA disability pay, but would ...