Senator John Warner of Virginia Rejects Military Widows Bid for Justice

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Senator John Warner of Virginia Rejects Military Widows Bid for Justice

According Military Officers Association of America (MOAA) “Sen. John Warner, Chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, has filed an amendment to the FY2006 Senate Defense Authorization Bill that would negate Sen. Bill Nelson's planned amendment on the SBP-DIC offset and paid-up SBP.” An amendment, SA1598 would direct the Veterans Disability Commission to “study” (another word for defeat) the SBP-DIC offset issue and include recommendations in their report to the President due next year.

Warner's language would effectively kill Nelson's proposal to end the unfair deduction of VA survivor benefits from military SBP annuities when military service causes an active duty or retired member's death. And it would eliminate language that would have moved up the effective date of paid-up SBP to October 1, 2005.

When a politician is pressured to be “politically correct”, one tool is a study… another study is not needed to do what's right! According to MOAA “The government provides two entitlements to military survivors from different agencies - SBP from the Defense Department and DIC from the Veterans Administration, but will not allow these survivors to collect both benefits. DIC offsets the SBP benefit, dollar for dollar, up to $993 a month.

But survivors of federal civilian retirees who are also veterans and die from a service connected cause do receive both benefits. This is a clear injustice, which needs to be fixed for 55,000 military survivors.” Senator Warner appears to support this double standard…but what’s new when it comes to honoring warriors and their families. Senator Warner has been a friend of the military community but this issue places him squarely in the “politically correct” camp…a position that is clearly a disservice and slap in the face of our warrior widows……….

Harry Riley,
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Crestview, FL 32539, 850-689-1818

"The bedrock of our very "freedom and liberty" rests on the love of Christ and sacrifice of our warriors and spouses."

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