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May 25, 2006

Veterans Disability Benefits Commission Votes Down Social Security Offset

The Veteran's Disability Benefits Commission has voted 11-2 to not even study the possibility of offsetting veterans disability benefits by Social Security disability benefits. This must be considered a rebuke for the chairman of the Commission who had been pushing the idea of an offset. Instead of an offset, the Commission intends to study issues:
... such as waivers if a veteran has less than six quarters of SSDI eligibility, or possibly to expedite reviews for veterans already service-connected by VA or for those medically retired from the military. Other key considerations would be to understand the effects on quality of life for disabled veterans and to understand utilization rates of SSDI by veterans.

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