POTUS wants to cut the unemployability part of your compensation because you are too old to work anyway?
You were not able to work when you were younger and did not pay into the Social Security System, so you already lost on that.
If you are no longer 100% Disabled, it means a lot more than just the hundreds of dollars a month you thought would still be honored until the day you die and even beyond for your widows.
If you live in Florida, it also means that you may lose this too!
"Any real estate owned and used as a homestead by a veteran who was honorably discharged and has been certified as having a service-connected, permanent and total disability, is exempt from taxation..."
It is bad enough that veterans over the age of 50 are 65% of the suicides and no one is talking about you but now this? Veterans should never have to go through any of this. It is a disgusting disgrace to the majority of veterans in this country!!!!!
"Veterans with a Service-connected DisabilityIn August 2016, about 4.6 million veterans, or 22 percent of the total, had a service-connected disability.
Veterans with a service-connected disability are assigned a disability rating by the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs or the U.S. Department of Defense. Ratings range from 0 to 100 percent, in increments of 10 percentage points, depending on the severity of the condition. (See table 7.)
The unemployment rate for veterans with a service-connected disability was 4.8 percent in August 2016, about the same as veterans with no disability (4.7 percent). The labor force participation rate for veterans with a service-connected disability (46.4 percent) was lower than the rate for veterans with no disability (50.7 percent).
Among veterans with a service-connected disability, 30 percent had a disability rating of less than 30 percent, while another 37 percent had a rating of 60 percent or higher. In August 2016, veterans with a service-connected disability rating of less than 30 percent were much more likely to be in the labor force than those with a rating of 60 percent or higher (54.7 percent and 29.9 percent, respectively). The unemployment rate for veterans with a disability rating of less than 30 percent was 4.4 percent, not statistically different than for those with a disability rating of 60 percent or higher (3.8 percent).
Among veterans who served during Gulf War era II, 36 percent (1.4 million) had a service-connected disability. Of these, 76.0 percent were in the labor force in August 2016, lower than the 86.6 percent for veterans from this period with no service connected disability. Among Gulf War-era II veterans, the unemployment rate for those with a service-connected disability was 5.4 percent, little different from those with no disability (5.7 percent).
In August 2016, about a quarter (901,000) of veterans who served during Gulf War era I had a service connected disability.
Their labor force participation rate (64.0 percent) was lower than the rate for veterans from the era who did not have a disability (86.7 percent). The unemployment rate for Gulf War-era I veterans with a service-connected disability (5.3 percent) was not statistically different than that for Gulf War-era I veterans without a service-connected disability (4.2 percent).
Among the 1.6 million veterans with a service-connected disability from World War II, the Korean War, and the Vietnam era, 14.1 percent were in the labor force in August 2016, lower than the 25.3 percent of veterans from these periods who did not have a service-connected disability. The unemployment rate of veterans with a disability from these wartime periods was 3.7 percent, about the same as their counterparts with no disability (3.8 percent)
About 669,000 or 13 percent of veterans who served during other service periods reported a serviceconnected disability in August 2016. The labor force participation rate for these veterans (37.8 percent) was lower than their counterparts without a service-connected disability (50.3 percent), while the unemployment rate was not statistically different for veterans with a service-connected disability (2.0 percent) and those with no disability (4.8 percent).
Regardless of period of service, many veterans with a service-connected disability worked in the public sector. In August 2016, 31 percent of employed veterans with a disability worked in federal, state, or local government, compared with 19 percent of veterans with no disability and 13 percent of nonveterans. In particular, 20 percent of employed veterans with a disability worked for the federal government, compared with 7 percent of veterans with no disability and 2 percent of nonveterans."
Call the hotline and voice your complaint. This has been around every year but it never makes it past the proposal stage. Rounding down on claims is in there too. They should do away with the silly math and make the claims rating linear instead of having a total of 100% or over and only being rated at say 75 and rounded down to 70%. If you can work and are IU they are supposed to evaluate you and issue a new rating either higher or lower or remain the same. If you can't work and are not getting better you should be applying for total and permant status. IU is supposed to be temporary. Everyone that is current or prior military should be complaing to their congressmen or senators. 855-948-2311 is the veterans hotline promised by the administration. It took less than two minutes to get someone when I called.
ReplyDeleteThank you for adding that but my husband is "permanent and total" but has an unemployability rating too. Most veterans do instead of a total comp of 100% service connected. It has been that way since the 90's. If this happens his check goes from $3,078.11 to $1,686.13 and then the real estate tax exempt goes away too. He will lose even more in benefits as 100%.
DeleteLike most veterans, when they can no longer work, they stop paying into Social Security. That means the amount they can collect as a senior citizen is peanuts compared to what they could have been making had they not become disabled because they put their lives on the line for the sake of this country that is about to abandon them.