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Disabled Veterans to Congress: Move Out on Stalled Bill to Allow Payment of Both Retirement and Disability Benefits

By Rebecca Kheel,

2024-07-10

Despite wide bipartisan backing, the Major Richard Star Act has languished for years, increasingly frustrating the veterans who are losing thousands of dollars in benefits.

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Montie Tucker Morris

07-21

Vietnam vets were spit on, and treated terrible, I was young when I watched them come home , and mistreated.I remember all the protest songs,itwas a stain on ouq country,the way they were,and stillare treated.A lotof them are homeless,becausethey never got the medical treatment they needed.

JayL

07-11

no one really cares about us disabled veterans. especially not politicians. we're just talking points to gain political power. we're still just getting used even after we're already broken.

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