Major Richard Star Act

This bill would let certain disabled military retirees receive both their full military retirement pay and their VA disability payments at the same time. It focuses on people whose disabilities are linked to combat, and changes the law to allow this “concurrent receipt” so both payments can be paid together.

Key points:

• Who is affected: Service members who retired due to disability and have combat-related disabilities.
• What changes: They could get both VA disability compensation and military retired pay at the same time, instead of one affecting the other.
• What it does in the law: Updates the rules to allow concurrent receipt for this group.