This is Social Security News, not VA News, but if this happens, there is bound to be some fallout for Social Security. From the Army Times:
A presidential commission will call Wednesday for an immediate 25 percent increase in veterans’ disability compensation while awaiting a larger overhaul of disability and transition benefits. ...
With the Bush administration already balking at the $4 billion increase in veterans’ health care and benefits programs being pushed by Congress, it is unlikely that administration officials would support further increases. ...
The commission comes down squarely on the side of veterans on several controversial issues. For example, it supports allowing disabled retirees to receive full veterans’ disability compensation and military retired pay when they are eligible for both, and to allow survivors to receive their full veterans’ and military survivors’ benefits.
If the administration didn't want to pay for disability benefits to veterans it shouldn't have STARTED the war. Going afte Al Qaida and the Taliban protecting them was one thing but as far as can be determined, Iraq did not attack us on September 11th.
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