Shipmates, Veterans and Military Retirees,

Please direct your response to this message to the originator.
seaweed@frontiernet.net 

Thank you all,

SCPO Don Harribine, USN(ret) NCPOA


Subj: Chapter 61 Retirees 
Date: 11/28/2004 2:06:49 PM Eastern Standard Time
From: seaweed@frontiernet.net
To: waspscpo@aol.com
Sent from the Internet (Details)

Don, Would you please publish this request.

Looking for any and all military retirees (all branches) that were not able to complete 20 good years for retirement because they were medically retired (Chapter61 Retirees) and are not eligible for Concurrent Receipt for that reason. We are trying to compile a list of all such retirees so that we can fight for the Concurrent Receipt benefits that we all deserve.

Please contact Bud Bessey HTC USN (Ret) seaweed@frontiernet.net 

Thanks Bud

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Quote from H.R. 303 IH     http://www.theorator.com/bills107/hr303.html

Sec. 1414. Members eligible for retired pay who have service-connected disabilities: payment of retired pay and veterans' disability compensation`

(a) PAYMENT OF BOTH RETIRED PAY AND COMPENSATION- Except as provided in subsection (b), a member or former member of the uniformed services who is entitled to retired pay (other than as specified in subsection (c)) and who is also entitled to veterans' disability compensation is entitled to be paid both without regard to sections 5304 and 5305 of title 38.`

(b) Special Rule for Chapter 61 Career Retirees- The retired pay of a member retired under chapter 61 of this title with 20 years or more of service otherwise creditable under section 1405 of this title at the time of the member's retirement is subject to reduction under sections 5304 and 5305 of title 38, but only to the extent that the amount of the member's retired pay under chapter 61 of this title exceeds the amount of retired pay to which the member would have been entitled under any other provision of law based upon the member's service in the uniformed services if the member had not been retired under chapter 61 of this title.`

(c) EXCEPTION- Subsection (a) does not apply to a member retired under chapter 61 of this title with less than 20 years of service otherwise creditable under section 1405 of this title at the time of the member's retirement.

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