This Act, known as the Major Richard Star Act, aims to allow disability retirees with combat-related disabilities to receive both veterans' disability compensation and retired pay. It proposes amendments to title 10, United States Code, ensuring that the retired pay is not reduced under certain sections. The bill seeks to enable concurrent receipts without regard to specific title 38 sections. It also includes technical and conforming amendments and specifies the effective date of the proposed changes. If enacted, these amendments would apply to payments for months beginning on or after the effective date.
Major Richard Star Act
This bill allows a veteran with a combat-related disability to receive retirement pay, without reduction, concurrently with their disability compensation. This includes veterans with a combat-related disability and fewer than 20 years of creditable service. (Currently, veterans who receive combat-related special compensation and retirement pay are subject to an offset in retirement pay for concurrent receipt of such benefits.)
